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.
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Projects Peer Review Panel (PPRP) 2026
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Apply for funding to develop a large or complex scientific project. You must have already discussed your ideas with one of our programme managers and have been invited to submit a full proposal. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding.
UKRI Translation: EPSRC ACT Proof of Concept (invite only)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Apply for follow-on funding to support early to mid-stage commercialisation of research in Advanced Connectivity Technologies. Applications must build on existing engineering and physical sciences research outputs. This funding opportunity is only for invited applicants.
UK-Singapore CRD 2026
Innovate UK
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £3 million for the purpose of developing innovative proposals with Singapore. You must collaborate with at least one Singapore business applying under the equivalent Enterprise Singapore programme.
Canada-G7-Nordic call for proposals on quantum technologies
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Apply for funding to establish world-leading partnerships in quantum technologies with researchers in Canada and other participating G7 and Nordic countries. Proposals must include researchers from both the UK and Canada and may also involve eligible partners from other participating countries.
Pre-announcement: Open-source semiconductor security platform development
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
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.
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.
Optical wireless communications research and testing facility
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
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.
Access EuroHPC supercomputers for AI development (AI Factories)
UK Research and Innovation
Apply for supercomputer time to train and develop AI models through EuroHPC. Aimed at startups, small medium enterprises, industry and the public sector working on AI and data-intensive tasks. UK applicants are eligible. No funding is provided.
AHRC responsive mode: catalyst awards
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
AHRC awards to support researchers without prior experience of leading a significant research project to accelerate their trajectory as independent researchers, to unlock their potential and build leadership and convenor experience. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for AHRC funding.
UK Japan Civil Nuclear Research Programme 2026
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
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.
Purchase mid-range equipment for biomedical research: MRC Equip
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Funding opportunity for mid-range capital equipment that will enable and enhance research across MRC’s scientific areas. You must be employed at a research organisation eligible to apply for MRC funding.
Connecting Culture Fund
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Apply for funding to enhance research culture at your BBSRC strategically funded institute. This is an invitation-only funding opportunity and one or more of our institutes must lead or co-lead the application, but other eligible UK based research organisations are encouraged to be involved as project partners.
Expression of interest: Precision prevention: biological mechanisms of response variation
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Apply for funding to study why people respond differently to biomedical prevention interventions. Projects must generate mechanistic evidence in humans to provide insight into precision prevention through better targeting. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for MRC funding.
UKRI translation: MRC proof of concept: stage two
Medical Research Council (MRC)
This funding opportunity was previously titled ‘Developmental pathway funding scheme: stage one’. Apply for funding to develop and test novel therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics and other interventions. You must be employed at a research organisation eligible for MRC funding.
Doctoral focal award plus: innovating in data-driven research
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
We are commissioning one doctoral focal award plus to develop a cadre of social scientists from doctoral studentships and across career stages with the skills needed to use data-driven research approaches in innovative ways. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for ESRC funding.
Enhancing resilience to wildfires in the wildland-urban interface
UK Research and Innovation
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.
EPSRC Strategic Infrastructure 2026 (invite only)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
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.
Doctoral focal awards in data-intensive sciences
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Apply for funding to deliver STFC’s doctoral focal awards in the field of data-intensive sciences. This funding opportunity builds on our previous investment, providing students with skills and training to enable careers in academia or industry. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for STFC funding.
2445: DRIVE35: Scale Up Fund
Innovate UK
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £150 million, to create scale up manufacturing facilities for zero emission vehicle technologies.