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Research, fellowship and project opportunities that include individuals in structured eligibility.

55 current opportunities · showing 1–24

OPENHealth & Medical

Advancing innovation in accelerated cancer diagnosis

UK Government

Description Innovate UK, on behalf of the Office for Life Sciences’ (OLS) Cancer Healthcare Goals programme, will invest up to £25.4 million in innovative CR&D projects. This funding will be to support the clinical validation and evaluation of early cancer diagnostic technologies and devices. This is subject to a suffi

Deadline
Oct 29, 2026
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OPENSmall Business & Startups

National Materials Innovation Programme: CR&D Rd1

UK Government

Description Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will invest up to £12 million into materials innovation projects. This is subject to a sufficient number of high quality applications being received. This funding is part of the National Materials Innovation Programme, announced as part of the Advanced

Deadline
Oct 29, 2026
Funding
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OPENSmall Business & Startups

CfI: Counter UAS Demonstrations in Prison Environments

UK Government

Description UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) R&D Missions Accelerator Programme (R&D MAP) , will invest up to £900,000 from the Safer Streets Mission in this Contracts for Innovation competition. This competition is operated by Innovate UK on behalf of the R&D MAP within UKRI. This is subject to us receiving a suffici

Deadline
Oct 29, 2026
Funding
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OPENSmall Business & Startups

CfI: Innovation in play to improve child outcomes

UK Government

Description UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will invest up to £3 million from the UKRI Breaking Down Barriers to Opportunity Mission in this Contracts for Innovation competition. This is subject to us receiving a sufficient number of high quality applications. The aim of the competition is to support organisations t

Deadline
Oct 29, 2026
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OPENSmall Business & Startups

CoSTAR Showcase Labs: Createch infrastructure and commercialisation (Grant)

UK Government

Word limit: 550In plain English, provide a summary we can use to identify the most suitable experts to assess your application. We usually make this summary publicly available on external-facing websites, therefore do not include any confidential or sensitive information. Make it suitable for a variety of readers, for e

Deadline
Oct 30, 2026
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OPENSmall Business & Startups

CoSTAR Satellite Labs: Accessible creative R&D infrastructure (Grant)

UK Government

Word limit: 550In plain English, provide a summary we can use to identify the most suitable experts to assess your application. We usually make this summary publicly available on external-facing websites, therefore do not include any confidential or sensitive information. Make it suitable for a variety of readers, for e

Deadline
Oct 30, 2026
Funding
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OPENSmall Business & Startups

Engineering Biology Collaborative R&D: Round 3

UK Government

Description Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will invest up to £8.5 million from the UKRI’s Engineering Biology Programme . The funding total is subject to a sufficient number of high quality applications being received. The aim of this competition is to deliver business led research and developm

Deadline
Nov 4, 2026
Funding
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OPENSmall Business & Startups

Focal award: EPSRC and MHCLG Fire Engineering Skills Hub (Grant)

UK Government

Word limit: 550 In plain English, provide a summary we can use to identify the most suitable experts to assess your application. We usually make this summary publicly available on external-facing websites, therefore do not include any confidential or sensitive information. Make it suitable for a variety of readers, for

Deadline
Nov 4, 2026
Funding
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OPENSmall Business & Startups

DRIVE35 Scale-up Fund Drawdown 5

UK Government

Description DRIVE35 (Driving Research and Investment in Vehicle Electrification) is a Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) led programme aimed at transforming the UK's automotive industry. This is achieved by supporting R&D and the commercial scale up of innovative zero emission vehicle technol

Deadline
Nov 5, 2026
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OPENSmall Business & Startups

CfI: Battery innovation for dual use & defence Phase 1

UK Government

Description The Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) through Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will invest up to £2 million in this Contracts for Innovation competition. This is subject to us receiving a sufficient number of high quality applications. The battery innovatio

Deadline
Nov 5, 2026
Funding
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OPENSmall Business & Startups

FOAK Builder: Programme Entry Expression of Interest

UK Government

Description Text update 13 October 2026: remove repetition and add clarity. Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will invest a minimum of £4.77 million through the Climate Tech FOAK Builder pilot programme. This will support ambitious, late stage climate tech businesses developing a First of a Kind (

Deadline
Nov 6, 2026
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OPENSmall Business & Startups

UKAEA (FOSTER) Fusion Sector Access Bursaries Cohort 2

UK Government

These bursaries are delivered by the FOSTER programme at UKAEA, which looks to create a pool of fusion-ready individuals able to join the growing fusion sector. The high-level project strategy to “implement a mechanism to provide bursaries to support the studies of students from under-represented backgrounds on courses

Deadline
Nov 10, 2026
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OPENResearch & Science

Transformative sustainable AI technologies (Grant)

UK Government

Word limit: 550 In plain English, provide a summary we can use to identify the most suitable experts to assess your application. We usually make this summary publicly available on external-facing websites, therefore do not include any confidential or sensitive information. Make it suitable for a variety of readers, for

Deadline
Nov 11, 2026
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OPENSmall Business & Startups

ADOPT Facilitator Support Grant: Round 12

UK Government

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will invest up to £100,000 to support the development of applications for on-farm trials and farm experiment projects. This funding is part of Defra’s Farming Innovation Programme , delivered in partnership with Innovate UK. This competition is designed for

Deadline
Nov 12, 2026
Funding
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OPENSmall Business & Startups

Frontier AI: SME Champions, Phase 1

UK Government

Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will invest up to £3.1 million on Frontier AI. This is subject to a sufficient number of high quality applications being received. The aim of this competition is to is to advance the development of state of the art artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning

Deadline
Nov 12, 2026
Funding
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OPENResearch & Science

Exploring the frontiers of environmental research 2026 (Grant)

UK Government

Word limit: 550 In plain English, provide a summary we can use to identify the most suitable experts to assess your application. We usually make this summary publicly available on external-facing websites, therefore do not include any confidential or sensitive information. Make it suitable for a variety of readers, for

Deadline
Nov 13, 2026
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OPENSmall Business & Startups

Efficient, Structured and Controllable AI Systems

UK Government

Description Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will invest up to £1.66 million on industrial research for novel reusable AI mechanisms. This is subject to a sufficient number of high quality applications being received. The aim of this competition is to advance the development of novel reusable art

Deadline
Nov 19, 2026
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OPENResearch & Science

NQS Mission 2: Components, systems and architectures (Grant)

UK Government

Word limit: 550 In plain English, provide a summary we can use to identify the most suitable experts to assess your application. We usually make this summary publicly available on external-facing websites, therefore do not include any confidential or sensitive information. Make it suitable for a variety of readers, for

Deadline
Nov 25, 2026
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OPENSmall Business & Startups

Investor Partnerships – Battery Innovation Programme

UK Government

Investor Partnerships Innovate UK, as part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), has selected investor partners with aligned investment interests and capacity to lead investments. These investor partners have demonstrated that they have the credibility, capability, capacity and appetite to invest in innovative, technol

Deadline
Nov 26, 2026
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OPENAgriculture & Food

John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Grant

DOC NOAA - ERA Production

NOAA/National Marine Fisheries Service’s (NMFS) Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program (MMHSRP) is authorized under the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) to facilitate collecting and disseminating reference data on stranded marine mammals (cetaceans and pinnipeds, excluding walr

Deadline
Dec 2, 2026
Funding
Award range: $1–$150,000
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OPENSmall Business & Startups

UK-Germany Bilateral Collaborative R&D: Round 5

UK Government

Description Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will work with The Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWE), (The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy), to invest up to £2.4 million in innovation projects. This is subject to a sufficient number of high quality applications bei

Deadline
Dec 2, 2026
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OPENSmall Business & Startups

Commercialising Knowledge Assets Fund (CKAF) Winter

UK Government

The Commercialising Knowledge Assets Fund (CKAF) is run by the Government Office for Technology Transfer (GOTT) and funded by the Department for Business Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST), formally the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (fDSIT). Innovate UK is administering this competition on behalf

Deadline
Dec 2, 2026
Funding
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OPENDisability & Accessibility

UKRI Enabling AI adoption across science and engineering (Grant)

UK Government

Word limit: 550In plain English, provide a summary we can use to identify the most suitable experts to assess your application. We usually make this summary publicly available on external-facing websites, therefore do not include any confidential or sensitive information. Make it suitable for a variety of readers, for e

Deadline
Dec 2, 2026
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OPENSmall Business & Startups

Sustainable Medicines Manufacturing Innovation: CR&D Round 2

UK Government

Description Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will work with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to invest up to £7 million to support the technical development and commercial readiness of sustainable technologies for the manufacturing of medicines. This is subject to a sufficient numb

Deadline
Dec 3, 2026
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Strong fit signals

  • The applicant meets career-stage rules
  • A host institution is secured when required
  • The work plan fits the award period

Requirements to verify

  • Citizenship or residency
  • Institutional nomination requirements

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