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External Funding Deadlines Calendar

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(Updated 13 November 2024)

ResDev Notification Date  Closing Date Primary Funder Name Funding Scheme 
19-Nov-24 31-Dec-24 Innovate UK Horizon Europe guarantee - EIT KICs 2022
27-Nov-24 08-Jan-25 Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) 24/79 Research in Mental Health Nursing (HSDR Programme)
27-Nov-24 08-Jan-25 Academy of Medical Sciences Academy of Medical Sciences Professorship Scheme
27-Nov-24 08-Jan-25 The British Academy (BA) Stein-Arnold exploration fund
28-Nov-24 09-Jan-25 Medical Research Council (MRC) Neurosciences and mental health: programme: responsive mode
28-Nov-24 09-Jan-25 Medical Research Council (MRC) Molecular and cellular medicine: new investigator: responsive mode
28-Nov-24 09-Jan-25 Medical Research Council (MRC) Population and systems medicine: research grant: responsive mode
28-Nov-24 09-Jan-25 Medical Research Council (MRC) Molecular and cellular medicine: research grant: responsive mode
28-Nov-24 09-Jan-25 Medical Research Council (MRC) Infections and immunity: research grant: responsive mode
28-Nov-24 09-Jan-25 Medical Research Council (MRC) New investigator research grant - neurosciences and mental health
28-Nov-24 09-Jan-25 Medical Research Council (MRC) Infections and immunity: new investigator: responsive mode
28-Nov-24 09-Jan-25 Medical Research Council (MRC) Research grants - molecular and cellular medicine: responsive mode
28-Nov-24 09-Jan-25 Medical Research Council (MRC) Neurosciences and mental health research: research grant: responsive mode
28-Nov-24 09-Jan-25 Medical Research Council (MRC) Population and systems medicine - new investigator research grant
28-Nov-24 09-Jan-25 Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Mid-range equipment grants for biosciences research: ALERT 2024
03-Dec-24 14-Jan-25 Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) DASA competition: PYRAMID for avionics and mission systems (phase 1)
04-Dec-24 15-Jan-25 Medical Research Foundation (MRF) Cancer Pain Clinical Fellowships
04-Dec-24 15-Jan-25 Medical Research Foundation (MRF) Adolescent Dermatology
04-Dec-24 15-Jan-25 Innovate UK Design Foundations
04-Dec-24 15-Jan-25 Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) BBSRC New investigator award: responsive mode
04-Dec-24 15-Jan-25 Innovate UK Mindset extended reality (XR): Digital therapeutics for mental health
04-Dec-24 15-Jan-25 Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) BBSRC Standard Research Grant: 2025 round 1: Responsive mode
04-Dec-24 15-Jan-25 Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinician scientist fellowship
05-Dec-24 16-Jan-25 Blood Cancer UK Pilot grants
05-Dec-24 16-Jan-25 Medical Research Council (MRC) Small molecule High Throughput Screen using AstraZeneca facilities
05-Dec-24 16-Jan-25 Blood Cancer UK Innovative Pilot Grants
06-Dec-24 17-Jan-25 Medical Research Council (MRC) Genome Editing Mice for Medicine (GEMM)
06-Dec-24 17-Jan-25 Innovate UK Contracts for Innovation: Clean Energy Demonstrators in Tanzania
10-Dec-24 21-Jan-25 Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Pushing the frontiers of environmental research
10-Dec-24 21-Jan-25 Wellcome Trust Climate and Mental Health Award: Uncovering mechanisms between heat and mental health
12-Dec-24 23-Jan-25 Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) AHRC Responsive Mode Pilot: Mission Awards
12-Dec-24 23-Jan-25 National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) NIHR advanced fellowship
17-Dec-24 28-Jan-25 Wellcome Trust Biology of fungal adaptation
18-Dec-24 29-Jan-25 Innovate UK AI solutions to develop AI competencies in key sectors
19-Dec-24 30-Jan-25 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 3D Nanoscale Metamaterials Hub for a Sustainable Future
19-Dec-24 30-Jan-25 Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) AHRC responsive mode: Curiosity Award
19-Dec-24 30-Jan-25 Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) AHRC responsive mode: Catalyst Award
20-Dec-24 31-Jan-25 Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences Call for Proposals
20-Dec-24 31-Jan-25 Innovate UK Fisheries and seafood scheme
24-Dec-24 04-Feb-25 EU - Horizon Europe HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-02 - Development of next generation synthetic renewable fuel technologies
24-Dec-24 04-Feb-25 EU - Horizon Europe HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-03 - Development of smart concepts of integrated energy driven bio-refineries for co-production of advanced biofuels, bio-chemicals and biomaterials
24-Dec-24 04-Feb-25 EU - Horizon Europe HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-04 - Critical technologies for the future ocean energy farms
24-Dec-24 04-Feb-25 EU - Horizon Europe HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-05 - PV-integrated electric mobility applications
24-Dec-24 04-Feb-25 EU - Horizon Europe HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-06 - Innovative, Community-Integrated PV systems
24-Dec-24 04-Feb-25 EU - Horizon Europe HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-07 - Resource Efficiency of PV in Production, Use and Disposal
24-Dec-24 04-Feb-25 EU - Horizon Europe HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-08 - Minimisation of environmental, and optimisation of socio-economic impacts in the deployment, operation and decommissioning of offshore wind farms
24-Dec-24 04-Feb-25 EU - Horizon Europe HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-09 - Demonstrations of innovative floating wind concepts
24-Dec-24 04-Feb-25 EU - Horizon Europe HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-10 - Market Uptake Measures of renewable energy systems
24-Dec-24 04-Feb-25 EU - Horizon Europe HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-11 -CCU for the production of fuels
24-Dec-24 04-Feb-25 EU - Horizon Europe HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-12- DACCS and BECCS for CO2 removal/negative emissions
24-Dec-24 04-Feb-25 EU - Horizon Europe HORIZON-CL5-2024-D4-02-01 - Industrialisation of sustainable and circular deep renovation workflows (Built4People Partnership)
24-Dec-24 04-Feb-25 EU - Horizon Europe HORIZON-CL5-2024-D4-02-02 - Robotics and other automated solutions for construction, renovation and maintenance in a sustainable built environment (Built4People Partnership)
24-Dec-24 04-Feb-25 EU - Horizon Europe HORIZON-CL5-2024-D4-02-03 - BIM-based processes and digital twins for facilitating and optimising circular energy renovation (Built4People Partnership)
24-Dec-24 04-Feb-25 EU - Horizon Europe HORIZON-CL5-2024-D4-02-04 - Design for adaptability, re-use and deconstruction of buildings, in line with the principles of circular economy (Built4People Partnership)
24-Dec-24 04-Feb-25 EU - Horizon Europe HORIZON-CL5-2024-D4-02-05 - Digital solutions to foster participative design, planning and management of buildings, neighbourhoods and urban districts (Built4People Partnership) 
26-Dec-24 06-Feb-25 Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) strategic Longer and Larger (sLoLa) grants - stage 2
02-Jan-25 13-Feb-25 Innovate UK ICURe Explore
02-Jan-25 13-Feb-25 Medical Research Council (MRC) MRC Centre of Research Excellence: round two: outline application
03-Jan-25 14-Feb-25 Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Therapeutic catalyst
08-Jan-25 19-Feb-25 Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Collaborate with German partners on arts and humanities research: round seven
09-Jan-25 20-Feb-25 Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) Grants for Studies
09-Jan-25 20-Feb-25 Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships
10-Jan-25 21-Feb-25 Royal Society Rosalind Franklin award and lecture
16-Jan-25 27-Feb-25 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) EPSRC-NSF: Exploiting Quantum Information Science in Chemistry
18-Jan-25 01-Mar-25 Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) NEOF Pilot Multiomics Competition for Early Career Researchers
18-Jan-25 01-Mar-25 European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) Global Lecture Courses
20-Jan-25 03-Mar-25 BRACE Equipment grants
22-Jan-25 05-Mar-25 The British Academy (BA) Horizon Europe Pump Priming Collaboration between UK and EU Partners
  No deadline Dunhill Medical Trust DMT Academy Ignition Fund
  No deadline Medical Research Council (MRC) Collaborate with the functional genomics screening laboratory
  No deadline Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) EPSRC programme grants
  No deadline Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) EPSRC open fellowships: responsive mode
  No deadline Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) EPSRC open plus fellowships: responsive mode
  No deadline Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) QuantIC industrial partnership fund - new venture
  No deadline Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) ESRC responsive mode: secondary data analysis
  No deadline Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) Funding for farming in protected landscapes
  No deadline Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Strategic infrastructure outlines