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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.

A guide for the commercialisation of Creative Industries Research

Apply for funding to transform the commercialisation of research in the creative industries, working collaboratively to address barriers to commercialisation and develop a new sector specific commercialisation guide.

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

Design Generators round two

Apply for funding to combine design-led interventions with arts and humanities methodologies to make positive contributions to the green transition.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funding.

PATT travel grants for competitively awarded observation time 2026

You can apply for travel and subsistence in support of competitively awarded science observation time at astronomy facilities available to the UK research community.

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

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.

Japan-UK Joint call for collaborations in Advanced Connectivity Technologies

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

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

Japanese applicants must be eligible for NICT funding.

Computing resources on the STFC DiRAC HPC facility (RAC19)

Apply for computing resources on the STFC DiRAC High Performance Computing facility.

DiRAC (Distributed Research Utilising Advanced Computing) supports STFC’s world class theory research programme including particle physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics, astronomy, cosmology, solar system physics, and particle astrophysics.

UKRI translation: MRC proof of concept: stage two

This funding opportunity was previously titled ‘Developmental pathway funding scheme: stage one’.

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.

Optical wireless communications research and testing facility

Apply for funding to establish optical wireless communications research and testing facility.

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

UKRI Translation: Impact Acceleration: CHERI IKC

Apply for funding to establish an Innovation and Knowledge Centre (IKC) focused on driving adoption of the Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions (CHERI) digital security by design technology.

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

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