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Public Engagement Spark Awards 2025B

Apply for funding to engage the public with Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) supported science.

Applicant organisations must:

  • be UK-based
  • produce annual accounts certified by an accountant

Proposals must include an appropriate STFC subject matter expert.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£100,000
Award range:
£5,000 - £20,000
Publication date:
8 September 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

Obesity Pathway Innovation Programme (OPIP): strand 3

UK NHS organisations can apply for a share of up to £85 million for Obesity Pathway Innovations. Funding for this competition is from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (£50 million) and Eli Lilly and Company Limited (£35 million).

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Co-funders:
Department of Science, Innovation and Technology, Eli Lilly and Company Limited
Funding type:
Grant
Publication date:
8 September 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

Obesity Pathway Innovation Programme (OPIP): strand 2

UK NHS organisations can apply for a share of up to £85 million for Obesity Pathway Innovations. Funding for this competition is from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (£50 million) and Eli Lilly and Company Limited (£35 million).

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Co-funders:
Department of Science, Innovation and Technology, Eli Lilly and Company Limited
Funding type:
Grant
Publication date:
8 September 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

Obesity Pathway Innovation Programme (OPIP): strand 1

UK NHS organisations can apply for a share of up to £85 million for Obesity Pathway Innovations. Funding for this competition is from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (£50 million) and Eli Lilly and Company Limited (£35 million).

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Co-funders:
Department of Science, Innovation and Technology, Eli Lilly and Company Limited
Funding type:
Grant
Publication date:
8 September 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

Farming Innovation Programme: small R&D partnership projects round four

UK businesses can apply for a share of up to £7.8 million for small research and development (R&D) partnership projects. This funding is from the industry-led R&D Partnerships Fund, a part of the Defra Farming Innovation Programme.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Innovate UK
Co-funders:
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£7,800,000
Publication date:
5 September 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

Addressing nuclear fission challenges for a prosperous future

Apply for funding for academic research into addressing nuclear fission priorities and challenges within the UK. EPSRC would welcome large consortia to address fission priorities through a whole-systems approach.

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

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£16,250,000
Award range:
£5,000,000 - £8,500,000
Publication date:
2 September 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

Opening up the Environment 2026

Apply for funding to deliver purposeful activities to increase the diversity of the UK environmental science community.

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

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£2,825,000
Maximum award:
£706,250
Publication date:
26 August 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

UK international ocean drilling programme site survey

Apply for funding for ship borne and virtual site survey investigations (SSI) to support the development of applications for a scientific ocean drilling expedition.

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

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£800,000
Award range:
£10,000 - £500,000
Publication date:
22 August 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:

Advanced materials: highlight notice

EPSRC is seeking to support applications through our standard research grant scheme in the following two areas:

  • advanced materials solutions for critical minerals
  • in-situ and in-operando materials metrology and characterisation

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

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Publication date:
21 August 2025
Opening date:
Closing date:
To be confirmed

Isambard-AI and Dawn AIRR supercomputers: Gateway route

Apply for 10,000 graphics processing unit hours on the Isambard-AI and Dawn supercomputers for artificial intelligence-related research and development projects.

Open to UK researchers from academia, industry, or other organisations.

Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
UK Research and Innovation, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Innovate UK, Medical Research Council (MRC), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Funding type:
Other
Publication date:
18 August 2025
Opening date:
N/A
Closing date:
Open - no closing date

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