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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 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.

Apply for UKRI impact acceleration accounts (IAAs) for institutional‑level, flexible, early-stage funding that helps organisations accelerate research impact into real world benefits. This funding opportunity harmonises IAA programmes across the following research councils: AHRC EPSRC MRC STFC

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £20 million for late stage collaborative research and development projects. Projects will support the UK’s transition to zero emission vehicles and a pathway to a net zero automotive industry. DRIVE35 (Driving Research and Investment in Vehicle Electrification) is a Department for Business and Trade led programme.

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £150 million. The funding will be to develop, deploy and operate innovative clean maritime solutions for three years in a real world environment. This funding is from the Department for Transport.

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £150 million. The funding will be to develop, deploy and operate innovative clean maritime solutions for three years in a real world environment. This funding is from the Department for Transport.

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £13 million for building quantum computing software applications that show clear value and potential high impact on near term quantum computing systems.

Apply for funding to transform the commercialisation of research in the creative industries, working collaboratively to address barriers to commercialisation and develop a new sector specific commercialisation guide. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding.

You can apply for travel and subsistence in support of competitively awarded science observation time at astronomy facilities available to the UK research community. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for STFC funding.

Apply for funding for projects focused on speculative and high-risk fundamental research with the potential to deliver high reward and a step change in the explainability of future AI systems. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UK Research and Innovation funding.

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.

Apply for proof-of-concept funding to develop and deploy innovative autonomous solutions for atmospheric science research or autonomous aerial systems for environmental science. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for NERC funding.

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.

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.

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.

Innovate UK, on behalf of the OLS Cancer Healthcare Goals programme, will invest up to £25.4 million, to support the clinical validation and evaluation of early cancer diagnostic technologies and devices.

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 funding to collaborate with the UK Human Functional Genomics Initiative. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for MRC funding.

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.