The Heat Network Efficiency Scheme (HNES) provides funding to public, private and third sector applicants, to support improvements to existing district heating or communal heating projects in England and Wales that are operating sub-optimally and resulting in poor outcomes for customers and operators.
Projects can apply to HNES for either revenue or capital grant funding:
Revenue grants – grants to fund procurement or mobilisation of external third-party support to carry out Optimisation Studies. These studies will assess heat network projects to identify causes of sub-optimal performance and recommend costed intervention or improvement measures.
Capital grants – grants to part-fund the delivery (installation) of eligible intervention/improvement measures.
UK Research and Innovation, Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Apply for this Early Independence Fellowship to support you to establish your own research niche and independence. You must hold a doctorate or evidence equivalent research experience and be based at a UK research organisation eligible for STFC funding.
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.
£1,000 – £30mCloses in 24 days (16 September 2026)UK-wide
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.
£1,000 – £30mCloses in 24 days (16 September 2026)UK-wide
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £3 million for innovative projects in specific technology areas. You must collaborate with at least one Swiss implementation partner applying under the equivalent Swiss Innosuisse programme.
£1,000 – £450kCloses in 11 days (3 September 2026)UK-wide
UK Research and Innovation, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
Apply for funding to pursue an adventurous, ambitious, curiosity-driven project in environmental research.
You must be:
• based at a UK research organisation eligible for Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funding
• in a role that meets the individual eligibility requirements
There is no limit on the value of the grant, the value specified within the summary page is an example.
Up to £950kCloses in 30 days (22 September 2026)UK-wide
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £20 million to develop innovative solutions for automation and robotics in agriculture, horticulture and forestry. This funding is from the Farming Futures R&D fund.
UK Research and Innovation, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
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.
UK Research and Innovation, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Apply for a BBSRC fellowship to further your career through an independent research project.
You must:
be an early career researcher
hold a PhD qualification (or equivalent experience)
be based at a UK research organisation eligible for BBSRC funding
UK Research and Innovation, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
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.
Up to £7.12mCloses in 23 days (15 September 2026)UK-wide
UK Research and Innovation, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR)
Apply for funding to work with overseas researchers in Luxembourg.
Submit a collaborative research grant application within the remit of Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR).
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for AHRC funding.
There is no limit on the value of the grant, the value specified within the summary page is an example.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £15 million for feasibility projects. This funding is from the industry led R&D Partnerships Fund, part of the Farming Innovation Programme.
£200k – £500kCloses in 17 days (9 September 2026)UK-wide
UK Research and Innovation, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), State of São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)
Apply for funding to work with overseas researchers in the State of São Paulo, Brazil.
Submit a collaborative research grant application within the remit of Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and State of São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP).
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for AHRC funding.
There is no limit on the value of the grant, the value specified within the summary page is an example.
The People and Research Scheme offers grants for activities that help people understand and champion the historic environment through, engagement, skills, training, education and heritage project-based posts. It also offers grants for research activities related to the historic environment sector including scientific and technical conservation, surveys and investigations, publication, archiving, toolkits and guidance.
https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/grants/what-we-fund/people-activities/
https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/grants/what-we-fund/research-activities/
The National Space Innovation Programme (NSIP) provides co-funded grant support to derisk high-reward R&D projects with a clear target market. NSIP operates open funding calls for all space-related technologies under two strands: NSIP Kick Starter that supports highly disruptive early-stage innovations, and NSIP Major Projects which emphasizes commercialisation and growth of particularly lucrative ideas from UK businesses, universities and research organisations. NSIP Call 3 will expand the NSIP portfolio of innovative R&D projects that meet the programme’s objectives to: catalyse investment into the UK space sector, capture market growth, raise Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) of priority space capabilities, and position space activities closer to commercialisation and exploitation.
UK Research and Innovation, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Apply for funding to translate bioscience research into innovations such as products, services and solutions that generate real-world economic, societal, and environmental impact.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for BBSRC funding.
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.
£1,000 – £30mCloses in 24 days (16 September 2026)UK-wide
UK Research and Innovation, Arts and Humanities Research Council
Apply for funding to combine design-led interventions with arts and humanities methodologies to make positive contributions to the green transition.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funding.
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £3 million for project development studies to support the development of ultra long duration battery energy storage demonstrators in the UK.
The Minister for Veterans and People has committed to recognising and celebrating the contributions of women veterans' service in the UK Armed Forces. The UK Government’s Veterans Strategy includes a commitment to commission a new oral history project to capture and preserve the experiences of women veterans.
The aim of this project is to create an official, digitised oral history collection documenting the lived experiences of women veterans.
The project should capture experiences from recruitment and military service through to transition from the Armed Forces, including the impact on family life. The primary audience is the general public, with outputs also intended to inform policy officials, researchers, veterans and the wider armed forces community.
£150k – £250kCloses in 30 days (22 September 2026)UK-wide