Apply for funding to support ambitious research and innovation across UKRI’s remit.
You must be an early career researcher or innovator who is either:
looking to establish or transition to independence
developing their own original and ambitious plans within a commercial setting
Open
Fellowship
13 February 2023
27 March 2023
4 July 2023 4:00pm UK time
UKRI and FNR have signed a memorandum of understanding to enable and support applications between researchers in the UK and Luxembourg. UKRI will fund the UK component and FNR will fund the Luxembourg component of the application.
Conditions will differ depending on the funding opportunity.
Open
Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR)
Grant
21 December 2022
N/A
Open - no closing date
Apply for funding to research motor neurone disease (MND).
You can get funding through any:
grants from MRC research boards or panels
MRC fellowships
You should apply through the existing funding opportunity that is most relevant to your science area and career stage.
Open
National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)
Fellowship, Grant
9 December 2022
1 December 2022
Open - no closing date
Apply for funding to establish an interdisciplinary research cluster to address an important challenge for population health.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding.
You can request £4.5 million to £7 million (80% full economic cost) per cluster, over four years.
Open
Grant
£40,000,000
£5,600,000 - £8,750,000
8 December 2022
27 April 2023 9:00am UK time
26 July 2023 4:00pm UK time
This funding opportunity is only open to applications assessed in the outline stage of the EPSRC Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) funding exercise and invited to submit to the second stage.
EPSRC expects to commit up to £325 million to support approximately 40 CDTs across the engineering and physical science landscape.
Open
Ministry of Defence
Grant
£324,000,000
29 November 2022
30 May 2022 9:00am UK time
12 September 2023 4:00pm UK time
Apply for funding for a Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) focused on the applications and implications of artificial intelligence (AI).
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding and have been successful at the outline stage.
Proposals are welcomed within priority areas addressing UK training needs in novel and existing AI technologies across the remit of UKRI.
Open
Grant
£117,000,000
29 November 2022
9 May 2022
13 July 2023 4:00pm UK time
Apply for funding to improve the methods used by others in biomedical and health research.
You must:
focus your project on methods research within MRC or NIHR remit
be a researcher employed by an eligible research organisation (this includes MRC units and centres)
Open
National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)
Grant
£2,500,000
11 November 2022
18 April 2023 9:00am UK time
14 June 2023 4:00pm UK time
UKRI and RCN have signed a Money Follows Cooperation agreement to enable collaborative applications between researchers in the UK and Norway. UKRI funding will be provided for co-investigators from Norway in successful applications.
Conditions will differ depending on the funding opportunity.
Open
Research Council of Norway (RCN)
Grant
3 November 2022
N/A
Open - no closing date
Apply for funding for up to two years. This includes half of your salary.
The scheme is for current fellows whose research has been affected by several issues.
You can apply if you:
currently hold an MRC career development award or clinician scientist fellowship
are in the final 18 months of your fellowship
Upcoming
Fellowship
15 July 2022
7 September 2023 9:00am UK time
19 October 2023 4:00pm UK time
Apply for funding to develop and test novel therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics and other interventions.
You must:
be based at a research organisation eligible for MRC funding
meet individual eligibility requirements
Open
Grant
£30,000,000
23 March 2022
8 June 2023 9:00am UK time
19 July 2023 4:00pm UK time