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Critical mass programmes to drive a sustainable future

Apply for funding to support critical-mass transdisciplinary research programs to drive the transition to sustainable technologies and operations, clean energy, circular materials or interseasonal energy storage (IES), in the UK’s mid-to-long term future.

International Centre to Centre Research Collaborations 2025: invite only

Apply for funding to form world-leading partnerships and work with the best international collaborators for your research. This funding opportunity is for research projects.

This funding opportunity is only open to applicant teams who were successful at the outline application stage.

Doctoral Focal award in Engineering Biology

Apply for funding to deliver a doctoral focal award in engineering biology. This funding opportunity will train the next generation of researchers in cutting-edge technologies applicable to a diverse range of careers. Applications should be led by organisations eligible for UKRI funding.

Sandpit: moving respiratory health diagnosis into the 21st century

Apply to attend a five-day interdisciplinary sandpit to develop research ideas to monitor and diagnose respiratory health conditions .

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

You must complete an expression of interest to apply.

Mathematical sciences open and open plus fellowship

These are personal, career development focused awards for the mathematical sciences.

You must have either:

  • a PhD and some years of additional research experience
  • more than four years’ experience in a relevant field by the start of your fellowship

We have postdoctoral fellowships for earlier career researchers.

Future Leaders Fellowships: round 10

Apply for funding to support ambitious research and innovation across UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s remit. You must be an early career researcher or innovator who is either:

  • looking to establish or transition to independence
  • developing your own original and ambitious plans within a commercial setting

UKRI Creating opportunities: rethinking economic (in)activity

Apply for funding to identify ways of supporting economic activity in places experiencing high rates of ill-health, disability, and informal care in the UK.

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

Research to advance UK recycling capabilities

Apply for funding for research to accelerate UK recycling capabilities. Projects will progress the development of more energy-efficient, environmentally sustainable, and economically viable recycling technologies and systems.

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

UKRI Metascience AI early career fellowships

The UK Metascience Unit will fund a cohort of early career fellows to build our understanding of how the growing adoption of AI is changing the research landscape, including what epistemic, metascientific, ethical and socioeconomic questions this raises, and how governments, industry, and funding organisations should respond.

Japan-UK Joint call for Quantum Technologies for Innovation

Apply for funding to form world-leading partnerships with collaborators in Japan for your research into Quantum Technologies.

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

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