Top 10 Funding Opportunities:

ERC Consolidator Grants (January 2025)

The scheme aims to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or programme. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal.

Impact Funding Framework (March 2025)

This scheme will co-fund and co-resource alliances and collaborative programmes designed to improve the impact of diet on obesity and non-communicable disease, reduce food-system-related environmental harms and deal with the threats posed by food integrity and complex supply chains. The scheme will also fund for innovative solutions to some of the most urgent challenges in skills, innovation, business creation and public engagement. The priority areas for single projects include Protein Diversification, Regenerative Agriculture and Labelling, Packaging and Transparency.

Future-Proofing Biosecurity by Strengthening the UK’s Microbial Forensics Capability

The Defence and Security Accelerator is inviting proposals that address challenges within the field of Microbial Forensics. The following research areas are of particular interest to this competition: Computational tools that improve the opportunity to detect anomalies in genome sequencing data and technologies that allow the identification and/or computational analysis of other omic signatures for novel Microbial Forensic capabilities.

Contracts for Innovation: Accessible Information on Coaches

This competition is seeking an affordable, user friendly hardware and software solution, which provides accessible audio visual information on coaches, particularly rail replacement coaches.

Manchester Prize – Round 2 – Clean Energy Systems – Research and Development

The prize is open to teams of innovators with breakthrough ideas for overcoming challenges in the field of clean energy using AI. Up to ten finalist teams will receive a cash prize, non-financial support and access to free computing power to develop their innovation.

Agricultural Diversification and Horticulture Scheme – Building Acquisition and Renovation

This scheme is providing capital grants to farmers and existing horticultural producers in Wales to support the development and establishment of agricultural diversification enterprises on farms and support the development and establishment of commercial horticultural enterprises.

Agricultural Diversification and Horticulture Scheme – Purchasing Capital Equipment

This scheme is providing capital grants to farmers and existing horticultural producers in Wales to support the development and establishment of agricultural diversification enterprises on farms and support the development and establishment of commercial horticultural enterprises.

The Tech for Good Programme (January 2025) – Starting a Business

This scheme is providing funding and support for startups and early-stage businesses to help them launch and build a successful venture that uses innovative applications of technology to drive a significant and positive impact for people and the planet.

The Tech for Good Programme (January 2025) – Research and Development

This scheme is providing funding and support for startups and early-stage businesses to help them launch and build a successful venture that uses innovative applications of technology to drive a significant and positive impact for people and the planet.

6G-XR Open Call 3 – Vertical Replicability Enablers

This Open Call is inviting third parties to submit projects that leverage 6G-XR’s enablers, infrastructure facilities and testbeds to deploy, replicate and validate the verticals of their interest.