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Manufacturing research hubs for a sustainable future: outline stage

Apply for funding to establish a large-scale, multidisciplinary research hub in support of manufacturing, environmental sustainability and net zero.

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

Projects should address major, long-term challenges facing manufacturing industries.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£24,000,000
Maximum award:
£12,000,000
Publication date:
26 April 2022
Opening date:
Closing date:

Improve equality, diversity and inclusion in UK modern slavery research

Apply for funding to assess the diversity of those funding, designing and participating in publicly-funded modern UK slavery research.

You must be either:

  • a UK higher education institution
  • an organisation eligible for UKRI funding
  • a UK-registered charity with a focus on modern slavery or equality, diversity and inclusion.
Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Co-funders:
The Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre (Modern Slavery PEC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£80,000
Maximum award:
£80,000
Publication date:
29 April 2022
Opening date:
Closing date:

Ideas on research priorities for Northern Ireland economic policy

Apply for funding to develop research priorities for economic policy through the ‘ADR UK: Business Data for Research (BDR) Northern Ireland’ programme.

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

Challenges must support the Department for the Economy Northern Ireland economic policy, specifically their ‘10X Economy’ economic vision for a decade of innovation.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£195,000
Maximum award:
£65,000
Publication date:
13 May 2022
Opening date:
Closing date:

Net Zero Hydrogen Fund: strand one development expenditure (DEVEX)

Strand one of the Net Zero Hydrogen Fund will provide development expenditure (DEVEX) support for front end engineering design (FEED) and post-FEED studies for new low carbon hydrogen production facilities.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Innovate UK
Co-funders:
Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£90,000,000
Publication date:
26 April 2022
Opening date:
Closing date:

SBRI: Fusion Industry Challenges: phase one

Organisations can apply for a share of £2 million to develop solutions to encourage innovation in the fusion industry through the use of:

  • novel and innovative heating and cooling systems
  • materials
  • manufacturing and technologies.
Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Innovate UK
Co-funders:
This is a Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) competition funded by the UK Atomic Energy Authority.
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£2,000,000
Publication date:
9 May 2022
Opening date:
Closing date:

Expression of interest: ATI Programme strategic batch: Jun 2022

The ATI Programme funds industrial research and investment aid for research infrastructures to make the UK civil aerospace sector more competitive.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Innovate UK
Co-funders:
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£685,000,000
Publication date:
10 June 2022
Opening date:
Closing date:

Improving UK identification of adult survivors of modern slavery

Apply for funding to assess the identification of adults with lived experience of modern slavery in the UK.

You must be from either:

  • a UK higher education institution
  • an organisation eligible for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding
  • a UK-registered charity with a focus on modern slavery.
Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Co-funders:
The Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre, Economic and Social Research Council
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£80,000
Maximum award:
£80,000
Publication date:
12 May 2022
Opening date:
Closing date:

Build community research consortia to address health disparities

Apply for funding to build community research consortia to address health disparities.

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

Your project should:

  • facilitate cross-partner collaboration with a view to establishing one (or more) community asset hubs, articulating hub structure and membership
  • scope whole or part of an integrated care system (or devolved equivalent) to understand the range of services, scale of provision, key stakeholders and existing partnerships
  • explore different collaborative models for integrating co-production into the improvement of health systems.
Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Medical Research Council (MRC), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Funding type:
Grant
Maximum award:
£250,000
Publication date:
22 April 2022
Opening date:
Closing date:

Farming Innovation Programme: large R&D partnership projects

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of £8 million for large research and development (R&D) partnership projects, from the industry-led R&D Partnerships Fund, a part of the Farming Innovation Programme.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Innovate UK, UK Research and Innovation
Co-funders:
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£8,000,000
Publication date:
1 April 2022
Opening date:
Closing date:

Canada-UK net zero value chains: transportation

UK registered businesses and Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can apply to collaborate on joint research and development projects that enable the transition to net zero for the automotive, rail, or maritime sectors.

Opportunity status:
Closed
Funders:
Innovate UK
Co-funders:
National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program
Funding type:
Grant
Total fund:
£4,000,000
Publication date:
19 April 2022
Opening date:
Closing date:

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