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Doctoral focal award: UKRI venture doctorates: outline stage

Apply for funding to deliver entrepreneurship-focused doctoral training.

Applications can be led by organisations with standard and non-standard eligibility. The non-standard eligibility process will need to be completed before an award is made.

An expression of interest is required by 21 September 2026 4:00pm UK time.

Resilient economy and security through ecosystem transitions grants

Apply for funding to improve our understanding of how ecosystem change affects resilience, security and prosperity as part of the NERC-Defra co-funded Resilient Economy and Security through Ecosystem Transitions programme.

You must be based at an eligible UK organisation to apply.

Pre-announcement: Trust and confidence in policing: R&I Consortium

Apply for funding to develop and test dynamic tools and innovative approaches to measure public trust and confidence in policing by 2030.

The tools and approaches developed will access the voices of underrepresented communities, assess the impact of police activity, and identify what builds public trust and confidence.

Pre-announcement: Expanding access to creative sector R&D infrastructure

Join the CoSTAR Network and host national infrastructure for creative sector R&D. Reduce barriers to creative businesses’ technology adoption and support commercialisation, scale up and investment for creative tech businesses.

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

Collaborate with the UK Human Functional Genomics Initiative

Apply for funding to collaborate with the UK Human Functional Genomics Initiative.

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

DRIVE35 Scale-up Fund drawdown five

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £150 million to create scale up manufacturing facilities for zero emission vehicle technologies.

DRIVE35 (Driving Research and Investment in Vehicle Electrification) is a BIST-led programme aimed at transforming the UK’s automotive industry.

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.

Purchase mid-range equipment for biomedical research: MRC Equip

Funding opportunity for mid-range capital equipment that will enable and enhance research across MRC’s scientific areas.

You must be employed at a research organisation eligible to apply for MRC funding.

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.

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.

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