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Isambard-AI and Dawn AIRR supercomputers: Rapid Access route

UK-registered micro, small and medium businesses can apply for 20,000 graphics processing unit hours on the Isambard-AI and Dawn AI Research Resource (AIRR) supercomputers for early-stage artificial intelligence product research and development.

BBSRC Engineering Biology (EngBio) ICURe Discover

Apply for funding to explore the potential market of your engineering biology-based idea, increase market awareness and gain deeper understanding of your technology’s potential applications.

You must be a bioscience researcher or technician based at a UK university, BBSRC-funded institute or approved public sector research enterprise.

UKRI Gambling Harms Research Coordination Centre (GHRCC)

Apply for funding for UKRI’s Gambling Harms Research Coordination Centre (GHRCC).

This investment will coordinate and facilitate UKRI’s Gambling Research Programme (RPG) and catalyse interest in gambling harms research.

Sovereign artificial intelligence (AI) series one

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1.6 million for the development of Proof of Concept demonstrators of AI technologies with state of the art performance. This is to support the UK’s AI sovereignty objectives.

Developmental pathway funding scheme: invited stage two

Apply for funding to develop and test novel therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics and other interventions.

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

You must be invited to apply for stage two of this funding opportunity.

BBSRC Follow-on Fund: 2025 round two

Apply for Follow-on Funding (FoF) to bridge the gap between bioscience research and achieving economic and societal benefit.

FoF applications must draw substantially on current or prior BBSRC funding.

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

Expressions of interest: artificial intelligence humanities sandpits: Canada, UK and US

AHRC and SSHRC invite expressions of interest to attend a humanities-led, interdisciplinary research sandpit looking to put humanities insights and methodologies at the heart of artificial intelligence tech design.

Through in-person and virtual workshops, teams will form and develop project applications.

Doctoral focal award: nuclear skills

Apply for funding for doctoral focal awards (previously centres for doctoral training) to deliver cohort-based doctoral education in civil and defence nuclear skills to home students. An intent to submit must be completed by 12 September 2025 4:00pm UK time.

Funding is subject to business case approval and the spending review.

Pilot projects with the UK Human Functional Genomics Initiative

Apply for pilot project funding in collaboration with the UK Human Functional Genomics Initiative.

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

Cultural heritage and climate change networks to drive policy change

Apply for DCMS funding to maximise the international partnership brokering and networking opportunities of UK arts and humanities research, as a step towards the Horizon Europe Resilient Cultural Heritage Partnership.

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

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