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Apply for Zero Emission Vessels and Infrastructure 2: Energy Efficiency (ZEVI 2)

UKRI and Innovate UK, with Department for Transport support, are funding up to £150 million in real-world clean maritime development projects focused on vessel energy efficiency, requiring collaboration, UK operations, and a three-year post-build demonstration.

Status: Open Type: Grant Amount: up to £150,000,000 (competition pot) Deadline: Sep 16, 2026 Location: United Kingdom

Aviation's Non-CO2 Impacts on the Climate 2026: Up to £385,425 for UK Research Projects

NERC, with the Department for Transport and Department for Business and Trade, is funding collaborative UK research that reduces uncertainty around aviation's non-CO2 climate impacts and supports credible mitigation and policy decisions.

Status: Open Type: Grant Amount: Up to £385,425 full economic cost per project; NERC funds 80% of eligible full economic cost Deadline: Sep 8, 2026 Location: United Kingdom

Battery Innovation Concept Development Round 2: £500,000 to £4 Million per Project for UK Battery Materials Innovation

Closed Innovate UK competition for collaborative concept-development projects that strengthen UK battery material extraction, processing, recycling, and supply-chain capability. Eligible grant requests were £500,000 to £4 million per project, within a total fund of up to £25 million.

Status: Historical Type: Grant Amount: £500,000 to £4 million eligible grant request per project; up to £25 million total fund Deadline: Historical reference Location: United Kingdom

Battery Innovation Programme: Battery Skills Initiatives

Historical reference for Innovate UK's 2026 Battery Innovation Programme competition, which offered UK registered organisations grant support to establish or scale regional battery manufacturing skills initiatives, with up to £3.7 million available and project requests between £440,000 and £1.2 million.

Status: Historical Type: Grant Amount: Up to £3,700,000 total; project requests must be between £440,000 and £1,200,000 Deadline: Historical reference Location: United Kingdom

BBSRC Brazil Pump-Priming Award (FAPPA) 2026: Up to £35,000 for UK–São Paulo Bioscience Collaborations, Open With No Closing Date

BBSRC and the São Paulo Research Foundation opened the FAPPA pump-priming award on 29 July 2026, offering existing BBSRC grant holders up to £35,000 at 100% full economic costing over two years for travel, exchanges, workshops and limited preliminary research with FAPESP-funded collaborators in Brazil, on a rolling basis with applications due at least twelve weeks before travel.

Status: Rolling Type: Grant Amount: Up to £35,000 at 100% full economic costing, over a maximum of two years Deadline: Rolling or ongoing Location: United Kingdom and Brazil

BBSRC Follow-on Fund: 2026 round one

Historical reference for BBSRC's closed 2026 round one Follow-on Fund, which supported UK bioscience teams with substantial current or prior BBSRC links to develop research outputs toward practical economic and societal benefit.

Status: Historical Type: Grant Amount: £100,000 to £800,000 full economic cost (FEC); BBSRC funds 80% of FEC; £3,000,000 total fund Deadline: Historical reference Location: United Kingdom

BBSRC International Travel Award Scheme for the Biological Sciences: up to £3,000 for one international visit

A BBSRC/UKRI mobility award that provides up to £3,000 (100% FEC) for short international travel to initiate collaborations, access techniques, or build consortium-ready research links.

Status: Open Type: Grant Amount: Up to £3,000 (100% full economic cost) Deadline: Apr 21, 2027 Location: United Kingdom

BBSRC New Investigator Award, Applicant-Led Mode: UK Grant for Early-Career Independent Research Leaders

An open UKRI funding opportunity for early-career UK-based researchers to run their own BBSRC-funded programme on a competitive applicant-led proposal up to £2,000,000 FEC, with continuous application and no published submission cutoff.

Status: Rolling Type: Grant Amount: Up to £2,000,000 full economic cost (FEC), with BBSRC funding 80% of FEC Deadline: Rolling or ongoing Location: United Kingdom

BBSRC Standard Research Grant: Applicant-Led Mode (Open)

A continuously open UKRI-BBSRC grant for investigator-led bioscience and biotechnology research, with up to £2,000,000 full economic cost and up to five years of funding.

Status: Rolling Type: Grant Amount: Up to £2,000,000 FEC (£1,600,000 possible BBSRC contribution at 80% FEC) Deadline: Rolling or ongoing Location: United Kingdom

BBSRC-STFC DeepTech Catalyst Bio 2026: Early-Stage BioTech Commercialisation Accelerator

UKRI’s BBSRC-STFC DeepTech Catalyst Bio (DTC Bio) is an open UK opportunity for young biotech start-ups with prior UKRI-linked support to secure up to £50,000 in R&D funding, an innovation voucher, and programme support to advance commercial-stage bioscience ideas.

Status: Open Type: Grant Amount: Maximum award £50,000 R&D funding plus £10,000 innovation voucher Deadline: Sep 14, 2026 Location: United Kingdom