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Addressing environmental challenges: NERC highlight topics 2023

Apply for funding to address 1 of 6 environmental ‘highlight topic’ research challenges.

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

We encourage applications from diverse groups of researchers.

NERC large grant to tackle big environmental science questions: Mar 2023

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.

You must be:

  • a UK resident
  • employed by an eligible UK research organisation

Responsible and trustworthy artificial intelligence

Apply for funding to co-develop research and coordination activities that support the UK’s capacity for interdisciplinary leadership in responsible and trustworthy artificial intelligence.

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

Artificial intelligence research to enable UK’s net zero target

Apply for funding for research into the use of artificial intelligence in addressing net zero challenges.

Applications must cross at least 2 research councils remits and respond to the highlighted themes.

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

DCMS Create Growth Fund: competition 1

UK registered micro, small and medium enterprises in the creative sector can apply for funding of between £10,000 and £30,000 for innovation projects to grow their business.

This funding is from Innovate UK and includes support from Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Network.

Leader for research in digital twinning for decarbonising transport

Apply for funding to lead the establishment of a large scale, interdisciplinary, digital twinning research hub to support both the decarbonisation and improved integration of the transport systems in the UK.

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

EPSRC Centres for Doctoral Training

This funding opportunity is only open to applications assessed in the outline stage of the EPSRC Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) funding exercise and invited to submit to the second stage.

EPSRC expects to commit up to £325 million to support approximately 40 CDTs across the engineering and physical science landscape.

UKRI Centres for Doctoral Training in artificial intelligence

Apply for funding for a Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) focused on the applications and implications of artificial intelligence (AI).

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding and have been successful at the outline stage.

Proposals are welcomed within priority areas addressing UK training needs in novel and existing AI technologies across the remit of UKRI.

BBSRC-STFC facility access funding for bioscience partnerships

Apply for funding to support UK business and bioscience academic partnerships in accessing and benefitting from STFC skills, expertise, capabilities, and world class facilities to find solutions to industrially-relevant challenges.

You do not need an academic partner to submit an expression of interest, but it is required for the full proposal stage.

Resource efficiency for materials and manufacturing (REforMM)

UK registered businesses and organisations can apply for a share of up to £1 million for feasibility studies that develop new approaches to improve resource efficiency.

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