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Understanding changes in quality of UK freshwaters: Programme Champion

Apply for funding to lead the development of the UK freshwaters research programme strategy as the Programme Champion.

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

You must submit a ‘notification of intent’ before your application proposal.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£625,000
Maximum award:
£625,000
Publication date:
22 April 2022
Opening date:
Closing date:

Surveillance and diagnostics for antimicrobial resistance

Apply for funding to develop networks to improve diagnostic and surveillance tools for antimicrobial resistance. Your networks must include relevant experts and stakeholders.

You should:

  • be based at a research organisation eligible for MRC funding
  • apply as part of a consortium of transnational partners.
Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Co-funders:
Funders from 11 Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance (JPIAMR) member countries to date
Funding type:
Grant
Publication date:
21 April 2022
Opening date:
Closing date:

Exploring the frontiers of environmental science research 2022

Apply for funding to explore new ideas and approaches that may open up novel paths of research or result in discipline-shifting discovery in environmental science.

You must be:

  • based at a UK research organisation eligible for NERC funding
  • at least at lecturer level, or equivalent.

The full economic cost of your project can be up to £100,000. Demand management will not apply.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£4,000,000
Maximum award:
£100,000
Publication date:
11 March 2022
Opening date:
Closing date:

Strategic longer and larger grants (sLoLa): frontier bioscience 2022 to 2023

Apply for funding for adventurous fundamental bioscience research at the frontiers of human knowledge.

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

Your project:

  • should have the potential to lead to major breakthroughs in our understanding of the rules of life
  • must demonstrate a team science approach
  • must demonstrate the need for longer and larger scale funding to deliver a novel and fully integrated research programme.
Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£16,000,000
Minimum award:
£2,000,000
Publication date:
4 May 2022
Opening date:
Closing date:

Knowledge transfer partnerships (KTP): 2022 to 2023, round two

UK registered academic institutions, research and technology organisations (RTOs) or Catapults can apply for a share of up to £8 million to fund innovation projects with businesses or not for profits organisations.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Innovate UK
Co-funders:
Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP)
Funding type:
Other
Total fund:
£8,000,000
Publication date:
1 April 2022
Opening date:
Closing date:

Expression of interest: Automotive Transformation Fund, round 22

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1 billion for capital centric investment projects that help industrialise the electrified automotive supply chain at scale in the UK.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Innovate UK
Co-funders:
Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£1,000,000,000
Publication date:
24 May 2022
Opening date:
Closing date:

Accelerate the impact of your organisation’s social science research

Apply for ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) funding to accelerate the impact of your organisation’s economic and social science research.

Your organisation must be eligible for ESRC funding.

This is an open opportunity for funding which will start in April 2023 and will last until March 2028.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Maximum award:
£1,250,000
Publication date:
24 March 2022
Opening date:
Closing date:

High end computing consortia research

Apply for funding to facilitate world-class high end computing research through a consortium.

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

You must either:

  • be employed at the submitting research organisation at a level equivalent to lecturer or above
  • hold a fixed-term contract that extends beyond the duration of the proposed project
  • hold an EPSRC, Royal Society or Royal Academy of Engineering fellowship aimed at later career stages
  • hold fellowships under other schemes.
Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£3,000,000
Publication date:
29 March 2022
Opening date:
Closing date:

Environmental response to hydrogen emissions

Apply for funding to explore the environmental response to hydrogen emissions.

The full economic cost of your project can be up to £1,687,500. NERC will fund 80% of the full economic cost.

Projects must start in October 2022 and last no longer than 24 months.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
Co-funders:
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£3,850,000
Award range:
£400,000 - £1,350,000
Publication date:
1 April 2022
Opening date:
Closing date:

Civil nuclear research with Japan: phase 9

Apply for funding to research challenges in civil nuclear energy relevant to Fukushima and Sellafield.

You must:

  • be a UK-based researcher employed by an eligible research organisation
  • collaborate with Japanese researchers.
Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Co-funders:
Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£1,000,000
Award range:
£250,000 - £500,000
Publication date:
13 April 2022
Opening date:
Closing date:

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