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Unlocking the full potential of nature-based engineering

Apply for funding to conduct novel research in nature-based engineering, which can be defined as designing and developing future systems and technologies using principles or processes inspired or supported by nature.

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

Analysis for innovators: National Physical Laboratory stage one

UK registered businesses can apply for funding to resolve productivity and competitiveness issues, by working with National Physical Laboratory scientists.

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.

Pre-announcement: Regional accounts for clinical researchers

Multi-institutional partnerships in regions across the UK can apply for regional accounts for clinical researchers. These provide local and flexible funding to clinical researchers at key career pinch points for research on mechanistic understanding of biology and disease.

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.

Host the Infrastructure Centre for digitised natural science collections

Apply for funding to host and manage the Infrastructure Centre for Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) UK, for its ten-year duration. This is a closed funding opportunity, for application by invitation only.

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

Host the Central Programme Delivery for Digitised Natural Science Collections

Apply for funding to host the central programme delivery hub for the Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) UK programme, for its ten-year duration. This is a closed funding opportunity, for application by invitation only.

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

Host the Catalysis Centre for Digitised Natural Science Collections

Apply for funding to host the Catalysis Centre for the Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) UK programme, for its ten-year duration. This is a closed funding opportunity, for application by invitation only.

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

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.

Full ADOPT grant: round three

Farming, growing or forestry businesses based in England can apply for a share of up to £3 million. This funding supports on-farm trial and demonstration projects to improve adoption of new ideas or solutions in the agricultural sector.

This is an Accelerating Development of Practices and Technologies (ADOPT) grant.

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