Funding

We list funding opportunities that are relevant to our network. If you have a funding opportunity that you would like us to share, please get in touch with our Communications Manager, Jordan Willis.

Closing date: 16 June 2026

Future Leaders Fellowships: Round 11

Apply for funding to support ambitious research and innovation across UK Research and Innovation...

Closing date: 16 June 2026

Early Independence: NERC Independent Research Fellowship 2026

Funders: Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)Funding type: FellowshipTotal fund:...

Closing date: 24 June 2026

Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP): 2026 to 2027 round 2

UK registered academic institutions, RTOs or Catapults can apply for a share of up to £10 million...

Closing date: 24 June 2026

Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship – Round 2

The objectives of the Royal Society Wolfson Fellowships are to: enable UK universities and...

Closing date: 01 July 2026

Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellowship

The Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellowships provide an opportunity for outstanding emerging or...

Closing date: 07 July 2026

Centre for Quantum Commercialisation Skills

Opportunity status: OpenFunders: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)Funding...

Closing date: 08 July 2026

Growth Cohorts: Next generation low carbon concrete cohort entry

Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), has launched a new two‑stage competition...

Closing date: 14 July 2026

Biological Influence on Ocean Carbon: Novel Modelling Approaches

Opportunity status: OpenFunders: Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)Co-funders: National...

Closing date: 14 July 2026

Multiple Model Assessment of Biological Influence on Ocean Carbon

Opportunity status :OpenFunders: Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)Co-funders: National...

Closing date: 15 July 2026

Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition 7: Pre-deployment trials

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £121 million across the three strands...

Closing date: 15 July 2026

Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition 7: Feasibility studies

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £121 million across the three strands...

Closing date: 15 July 2026

Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition 7: Deployment trials

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £121 million across the three strands...

Closing date: 15 July 2026

Doctoral focal award: environmental evidence synthesis

Opportunity status: OpenFunders: Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Economic and Social...

Closing date: 16 July 2026

Environmental sciences: Global Partnerships Seedcorn Fund 2026

Opportunity status: OpenFunders: Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)Co-funders: São Paulo...

Closing date: 18 August 2026

Active travel facilitators and barriers within different populations

Overview Opportunity status: Open Type: Programme Opening date: 17 March 2026 at 1:00...

Closing date: 31 August 2026

Pushing the frontiers of environmental science 2026

Apply for funding to pursue an ambitious, high-reward curiosity-driven project in environmental...

Closing date: 08 September 2026

UKRI Policy Internships 2026

Opportunity status: OpenFunders: UK Research and Innovation, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences...

Closing date: 10 September 2026

Sector transition: UKRI policy fellowships 2026

Opportunity status: OpenFunders: UK Research and Innovation, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences...

Closing date: 15 October 2026

EDRC Rapid Projects Fund

This Flexible Fund is to create a research programme that can respond rapidly to changing research...

Closing date: 08 December 2026

Housing, Place and the Built Environment for an Ageing Population

Opportunity status: Open Type: Programme Opening date: 17 March 2026 at 1:00 pm Closing...

Closing date: 23 August 2027

Asset Decarbonisation and Retrofit Dynamic Purchasing System

Established in 2004, Procurement for Housing (PfH) is a national procurement consortium dedicated...