Collaboration for a Sustainable Future: pilots & UK seed funding

Open UKRI funding opportunity · Other. Closes 2027-02-04. Total fund £19 million. Opportunity page: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/collaboration-for-a-sustainable-future-pilots-uk-seed-funding/

You must meet the unique eligibility of this funding opportunity, please see eligibility section for details. This funding includes both England-only and UK-wide elements.

This funding opportunity is for higher education providers to lead institutional collaborations for a sustainable cost-effective future. Funding to pilot new institutional collaborations (England-only) and to seed innovation partnerships across two self-defined geographic areas (UK-wide). This is not a research grant opportunity.

Research England will fund 100% of the full economic cost (FEC).

What we're looking for Research England awards funding for organisation-led not individual-led applications. Therefore, you are asked to look closely at the information provided in this funding opportunity, and to have the guidance open within the Funding Finder when completing your application in the UKRI Funding Service. The information provided reflects the funding Research England awards.

Scope

Research England supports English higher education providers to create and sustain the conditions for a healthy and dynamic research and knowledge exchange system in the higher education sector. This supports UKRI’s mission to advance knowledge, improve lives, and drive growth.

The Research England Collaboration for a Sustainable Future (CSF) Programme sets out to identify barriers and opportunities to institutional collaboration within the research and innovation system for a sustainable cost-effective future. The CSF programme will help us identify where Research England could deliver interventions that make the most difference for sustained joint working.

Through this funding opportunity within the CSF programme, we are seeking to support pilots and seed funding which span multiple organisations that test new…