Top 10 Funding Opportunities:

Boosting Innovation for a Better Understanding of the Determinants of Health

The actions to be funded under this topic are expected to achieve expected impacts including, but not limited to, patients benefitting from preventive treatment or early disease intervention before onset of symptoms, prevention and early diagnosis of disease combined with better understanding of the mechanisms involved, leading to the development of more cost-effective strategies and patients benefitting from improved healthcare through regular monitoring of critical parameters using validated tools.

Critical Mass Programmes to Drive a Sustainable Future

This scheme is providing funding to support critical-mass transdisciplinary research programs that drive the transition to sustainable technologies and operations, clean energy, circular materials or interseasonal energy storage (IES) beyond hydrogen. Businesses are not eligible to apply but they are expected to be listed as project partners.

Global Collaborative Action Tackling Diarrhoeal Diseases in the Context of Climate and Health

This topic is seeking proposals that will contribute to expected outcomes (with the first being mandatory) including developing interventions to identify and control diarrhoeal diseases through generating late-stage clinical data in sub-Saharan Africa, implementation research combining interventions with current standard of care and generating evidence to evaluate the populations and geographies of most vulnerable to diarrheal diseases, understand the key underlying factors including those related to climate change, and understand the barriers to protect the people affected.

EIT RawMaterials – ERMA Booster Call (March 2025) – Research and Development

This call is providing access to funding, expert guidance, and Europe’s largest network of industry leaders to help start-ups, scale-ups, and mining projects active in the raw materials value chain to scale their business and solve Europe’s critical raw materials challenges. Start-ups can receive funding of up to €500,000, scale-ups and SMEs can receive up to €1,500,000 and mining projects can receive up to €2,500,000.

EIT RawMaterials – ERMA Booster Call (March 2025) – Business Growth

This call is providing access to funding, expert guidance, and Europe’s largest network of industry leaders to help start-ups, scale-ups, and mining projects active in the raw materials value chain to scale their business and solve Europe’s critical raw materials challenges. Start-ups can receive funding of up to €500,000, scale-ups and SMEs can receive up to €1,500,000 and mining projects can receive up to €2,500,000.

APCUK: ARMD4 Advanced Route to Market Demonstrator 4 – Industrial Research

This competition aims to support late stage R&D projects that help accelerate the UK transition to zero emission vehicles and towards a net zero automotive future.

APCUK: ARMD4 Advanced Route to Market Demonstrator 4 – Experimental Development

This competition aims to support late stage R&D projects that help accelerate the UK transition to zero emission vehicles and towards a net zero automotive future.

UKRI Creating Opportunities: Rethinking Economic (In)activity

This scheme is providing funding to deliver an interdisciplinary project that will identify ways of supporting economic activity in places experiencing high rates of ill-health, disability, and informal care in the UK. Applicants are strongly encouraged to include project co-leads from UK businesses, third sector organisations or government bodies.

Pushing the Frontiers of Environmental Research: July 2025

This scheme is providing funding to support ambitious, high risk and high reward curiosity-driven projects in environmental research.

CTC Property Development Fund – Property Development

This Fund aims to support developers with the construction, expansion or refurbishment of buildings for industrial/commercial use with the primary aim of creating capacity for employment in Carmarthenshire.