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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.

Apply for NERC’s ICURe Engage four-week programme for those projects previously funded by NERC. The programme aims to identify potential beneficiaries and users of academic research, introduce participants to commercialisation tools, and foster entrepreneurship.

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.

An opportunity for UKRI-funded doctoral students to undertake a three-month internship at one of a selected group of influential policy organisations, undertaken as part of the existing doctoral studentship.

Apply for funding to form world-leading partnerships with collaborators in Japan for your research into Advanced Connectivity Technologies. UK applicants must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding. Japanese applicants must be eligible for NICT funding.

Apply for this jointly funded opportunity between EPSRC and the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) aiming to support two projects focused on the decommissioning of Fukushima and Sellafield.

Apply for funding to deliver collaborative research which focuses on the underpinning science of aviation’s non-carbon dioxide (non-CO2) impacts and how they interact with climate over time with the view to identifying benefits, mitigation options, informing industry and government policy decisions.

Apply for funding to deliver collaborative research projects with partners from the US, Canada or both to improve understanding of and resilience to wildfire occurrence and impacts in the wildland-urban interface. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding.

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £15 million for feasibility projects. This funding is from the industry-led Research and Development Partnerships Fund, part of the Farming Innovation Programme.

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.

Apply for funding to form world-leading partnerships with collaborators in Japan for your research into Advanced Connectivity Technologies. UK applicants must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding. Japanese applicants must be eligible for NICT funding.

Apply for funding to run a high throughput screen (HTS) using AstraZeneca’s compound library and screening robots. There are two funding opportunities per year that are open to all targets.

Apply for funding to investigate the causes, progression and treatment of human disease. Your application must include an intervention in humans. You must be a researcher based at a research organisation eligible to apply for Medical Research Council (MRC) funding.

Apply for MRC Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) funding to tackle complex and interdisciplinary health challenges. You must be invited to apply for this stage of the funding opportunity.

Apply for this sector transition fellowship to transfer knowledge and skills across academic and policy sectors and increase sector porosity.

Apply for responsive funding to generate time-critical research to support UK policymakers or frontline practitioners in public services. You must be based at a UK organisation eligible for ESRC funding and have a confirmed public sector organisation partner who will use project outputs.

Apply for funding to turn your innovative technology into market reality. You must: be a UK-registered company under five years old that is majority-owned by founders and employees have received previous support from UKRI or a UKRI partner organisation

Apply for funding to purchase strategic infrastructure that will improve UK scientific capability and enable cutting-edge research of high priority to EPSRC. This funding opportunity is for invited applicants only. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding.

Apply for an early independence fellowship if your research focus is within Medical Research Council (MRC) remit. You must: have a PhD or equivalent show evidence of career consolidation and productivity show clear plans for establishing your own research niche that enables a step-change towards independence

Apply for funding to establish optical wireless communications research and testing facility. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding.