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Future Leaders Fellowships: round eight

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

Collaborate with researchers in Luxembourg

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.

Researching motor neurone disease: highlight notice

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.

Population health improvement network of clusters

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.

EPSRC Centres for Doctoral Training

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.

UKRI Centres for Doctoral Training in artificial intelligence

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.

Better methods, better research: Jun 2023

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)

Collaborate with researchers in Norway

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.

Pre-announcement: transition support for MRC intermediate fellows

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

Developmental Pathway Funding Scheme

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

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