UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
United KingdomOfficial website: ukri.org ↗
The UK's national funder of research and innovation. It brings together seven research councils, Innovate UK and Research England; calls run by a single council are on that council's own page.
30 open calls · 3 upcoming calls
Open calls
Closing soonest first, then calls with no fixed deadline. Updated November 4, 2026.
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Transformative sustainable AI technologies
Deadline: · Up to £602,500
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NERC-Innovate UK ICURe Discover programme
Deadline: · Up to £2,500
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Data for metascience sandpit 2027
Deadline: · Up to £2,000,000
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NQS Mission 2 Coordination Network
Deadline: · Up to £630,937
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NQS Mission 2: Components, systems and architectures
Deadline: · Up to £2,560,000
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Expression of interest: Small-satellite missions sandpit
Deadline: · Up to £1,870,000
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UKRI Enabling AI adoption across science and engineering
Deadline: · Up to £250,000
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Gambling harms research grants
Deadline: · Up to £2,000,000
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UKRI: Integration of AI/HPC with quantum computing
Deadline: · Up to £3,750,000
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Manufacturing Scale-up Network Plus
Deadline: · Up to £5,625,000
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Manufacturing Scale-up Research and Innovation: Automotive and Aerospace
Deadline: · Up to £600,000
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What Works Centre for a climate resilient UK
Deadline: · Up to £21,100,000
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Advancing solutions for critical mineral production and recycling
Deadline: · Up to £305,000
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UK Compute Roadmap – Community Centres of Excellence (outline stage)
Deadline: · Up to £2,000,000
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Testing and validating underground hydrogen storage components
Deadline: · Up to £5,000,000
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Underground hydrogen storage demonstrator DEVEX support
Deadline: · Up to £1,500,000
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Collaboration for a Sustainable Future: pilots & UK seed funding
Deadline: · £100,000 – £5,000,000
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Water4All 2026 call: sustainable water management
Deadline: · Up to £312,500
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Experimental medicine to define mechanisms of gambling disorder: stage one
Deadline: · Up to £3,000,000
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Access EuroHPC quantum computers through the pilot call
Rolling: no fixed deadline listedNot specified
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Access EuroHPC supercomputers for AI development (AI Factories)
Rolling: no fixed deadline listedNot specified
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Access EuroHPC supercomputers for research computing
Rolling: no fixed deadline listedNot specified
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Collaborate with researchers in Brazil
Rolling: no fixed deadline listedNot specified
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Collaborate with researchers in Luxembourg
Rolling: no fixed deadline listedNot specified
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Collaborate with researchers in Norway
Rolling: no fixed deadline listedNot specified
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Daphne Jackson Trust fellowship
Rolling: no fixed deadline listedNot specified
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Isambard-AI and Zenith AIRR supercomputers: Gateway route
Rolling: no fixed deadline listedNot specified
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Isambard-AI and Zenith AIRR supercomputers: Rapid Access route
Rolling: no fixed deadline listedNot specified
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Knowledge Transfer Partnership
Rolling: no fixed deadline listedNot specified
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Open access fund for longform publications: stage two
Rolling: no fixed deadline listedNot specified
Upcoming
Announced by UK Research and Innovation but not open for applications yet, so not counted above. Dates are the funder's estimates.
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Growth Roundtable
Forecast · Expected to open November 5, 2026UK Research and InnovationUp to £2,950,000Estimated deadline: January 7, 2027
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Pre-announcement: Engineering Biology Programme: mission hubs
Forecast · Opening date not announced yetUK Research and InnovationUp to £15,000,000
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Pre-announcement: Engineering Biology Programme: foundational technology hubs
Forecast · Opening date not announced yetUK Research and InnovationUp to £12,000,000
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