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ESRC Responsive Mode: Research Grants Round Two (Open Ongoing Call)

An always-open ESRC funding opportunity that supports original, high-quality social science research in UK-based teams, with awards from £350,000 to £1,000,000 (project FEC) and flexible timing through multiple rounds.

Status: Rolling Type: Grant Amount: £350,000 - £1,000,000 project FEC; ESRC funds up to 80% of FEC Deadline: Rolling or ongoing Location: United Kingdom

Establishing a UK Ultra-high Field NMR National Research Facility (Invite Only)

UKRI and EPSRC opportunity to build a national 24/7-capable ultra-high field NMR research service with strict cost-recovery and infrastructure requirements.

Status: Deadline Passed Type: Grant Amount: Up to £7,250,000 (single five-year grant award up to 40%+ FEC cost-recovery requirements) Deadline: Jul 7, 2026 Location: United Kingdom

Frontier AI Benchmarking Datasets 2026: Up to £4.5 Million for UK AI Benchmark and Dataset Projects

Innovate UK is funding collaborations that create benchmark datasets, curated annotated datasets, and evaluation harnesses for priority AI missions in health, life sciences, and advanced materials.

Status: Deadline Passed Type: Grant Amount: Up to £4.5 million Deadline: May 27, 2026 Location: United Kingdom

Full ADOPT Grant: Round Seven

A UK England-only ADOPT competition for established farming, growing or forestry businesses to fund collaborative on-farm trials up to £100,000 project costs in support of innovation adoption.

Status: Deadline Passed Type: Grant Amount: Up to £5,000,000 total competition funding Deadline: Jun 3, 2026 Location: England and United Kingdom

Future Leaders Fellowships: Round 11 (UKRI)

UK Research and Innovation’s Future Leaders Fellowships Round 11 is a nationwide scheme for independent early-career researchers and innovators in the UK, with a £110 million budget and academic and non-academic rounds in 2026.

Status: Deadline Passed Type: Grant Amount: Total fund £110,000,000; no fixed project cap, no minimum or maximum award size Deadline: Jun 16, 2026 Location: United Kingdom

Future offshore wind technologies: industrial research (research organisations)

UKRI/Innovate UK is running an open competition for UK-registered businesses and partners to deliver industrial research in offshore wind, with up to 70% funding support for micro and small enterprises and total eligible project costs between £150,000 and £1.5 million.

Status: Deadline Passed Type: Grant Amount: Up to £10,000,000 across both strands Deadline: Jun 3, 2026 Location: United Kingdom

Growth Cohorts: Next generation low carbon concrete cohort entry

Innovate UK is running a two-stage Growth Cohorts competition for UK startups, SMEs, and businesses building concrete decarbonisation solutions, with a £50,000 stage 1 grant application and further stage 2 funding for successful participants.

Status: Deadline Passed Type: Grant Amount: £50,000 for stage 1 entry round (up to £1,000,000 available in stage 1) Deadline: Jul 8, 2026 Location: United Kingdom

Immersive Arts phase two: invite only — UKRI grant opportunity

This UKRI invite-only programme funds a UK consortium to lead Immersive Arts phase two, with up to £8.35 million in maximum UKRI and national arts council support across a three-year creative immersive innovation programme.

Status: Deadline Passed Type: Grant Amount: Maximum £8,350,000 from AHRC and UK arts councils (pre-indexation) Deadline: Jun 11, 2026 Location: United Kingdom

Innovate UK Scaling Performance of Quantum Computing Hardware CR&D 2026: Share of £33 Million for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Hardware

Innovate UK is investing up to £33 million in collaborative R&D grants of £1 million to £3.5 million to develop device-level hardware and software for universal fault-tolerant quantum computers, with applications closing 18 September 2026.

Status: Open Type: Grant Amount: Up to £33 million total; £1 million to £3.5 million grant request per project Deadline: Sep 18, 2026 Location: United Kingdom

Isambard-AI and Dawn AIRR supercomputers: Gateway route

An open UKRI compute-access route that awards up to 10,000 GPU hours on Isambard-AI or Dawn for early-stage AI research and development, without a direct grant budget.

Status: Rolling Type: Other Amount: No funding is provided; up to 10,000 GPU hours per project Deadline: Rolling or ongoing Location: United Kingdom