Top 10 Funding Opportunities:

Boosting Creative Startups for Disruptive Innovation

Projects supported under this topic should contribute to outcomes including, but not limited to, deepened knowledge of specific factors favouring the growth of creative startups, in particular those with potential for disruptive innovation and/or cross-sectorial innovation impacts, is made available and promoted to policymakers, investors, funding- and enterprise support bodies.

Mental Health Award: Using Physical Activity and Circadian-Based Interventions to Reduce Anxiety and Depression in Young People

This award is funding mechanistically informed trials of interventions for anxiety and depression in young people aged 10-18 years.

Technical Area 2, Cybersecurity

This funding call will support teams to build production-grade, security-critical software components whose key security properties are backed by machine-checked proofs, validated through coordinated red-team exercises.

Estimating the Global Burden of Diarrheal Diseases

This Grand Challenge aims to support organizations with strong epidemiologic and quantitative modeling capabilities to produce credible, transparent, and decision-useful estimates of diarrheal disease burden in LMICs.

Commercialising Knowledge Assets Fund (CKAF) Autumn

This competition aims to support organisations to move viable public sector Knowledge Assets with identified potential markets towards commercialisation.

Contracts for Innovation: FOAK26 – Research and Development

This Contracts for Innovation competition aims to support innovative suppliers for market readiness, through developing solutions which address the following challenges linked to DfT Priorities including, but not limited to, growing the economy by enhancing the transport network, on time and on budget.

MSWA Multiple Sclerosis and Neurological Care Accelerator – Business Growth

This accelerator programme aims to supports early-stage ventures harnessing AI, robotics, wearables, and digital health to address multiple sclerosis, stroke, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, motor neurone disease and acquired brain injury.

MSWA Multiple Sclerosis and Neurological Care Accelerator – Research and Development

This accelerator programme aims to supports early-stage ventures harnessing AI, robotics, wearables, and digital health to address multiple sclerosis, stroke, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, motor neurone disease and acquired brain injury.

NBIC Funding Call: Industrial Challenge Response Fund

This call is seeking high quality project proposals from organisations with the expertise to investigate and exploit areas in which biofilms play a central role. Between £5,000 and £35,000 is available for feasibility studies, prototype testing, regulatory advice, IP support. Follow-on funding of up to £100,000 is available to help projects advance toward market readiness. Projects should be a collaboration between at least one NBIC research partner institution and at least one SME or third or public sector organisation.

BBSRC-STFC DeepTech Catalyst Bio 2026

This business incubator programme aims to support early-stage biotechnology start-ups in achieving their commercial potential. This programme includes £50,000 of research and development funding, innovation vouchers and technical, commercial, business and intellectual property support.