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MRC Centre of Research Excellence: round five: outline application

Apply for MRC Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) funding to tackle complex and interdisciplinary health challenges.

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

Exploring the frontiers of environmental research 2026

Apply for funding to pursue truly novel curiosity-driven environmental research that is at an early stage of development and has the potential to be transformative.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for Natural Environment Research funding.

High performance compute resources for EPSRC communities

Apply for funding to provide high-performance compute resource for engineering and physical sciences communities.

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

EPSRC Strategic Infrastructure outlines: September 2026

Apply for funding to purchase strategic infrastructure that will improve UK scientific capability and enable cutting-edge research of high priority to EPSRC.

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

CoSTAR Satellite Labs: Accessible creative R&D infrastructure

Join the CoSTAR Network and host national infrastructure for creative sector research and development. 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.

CoSTAR Showcase Labs: Createch infrastructure and commercialisation

Join the CoSTAR Network and host national infrastructure for creative sector research and development. 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.

Pre-announcement: Open-source semiconductor security platform development

Apply for funding to support the development of an open-source hardware security research platform to strengthen the UK’s capability to design, test and assure secure hardware.

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

Research Infrastructure Renewal

Apply for capital funding to renew, replace and enhance capabilities for environmental science. The funding opportunity is for existing facilities, laboratories and other national capabilities which are demonstrably available for use by the wider environmental science community.

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.

EPSRC new investigator award: applicant-led mode

Apply for funding to support your transition to research independence. This funding will enable you to develop your own research vision and lead a team.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding and it must be your first application to EPSRC as a project lead.

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