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External Funding Deadlines Calendar

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(Updated 11 December 2024)

ResDev Notification Date  Closing Date Primary Funder Funding Scheme 
11-Dec-24 22-Jan-25 Medical Research Council (MRC) Experimental medicine to define new mechanisms of neurodegeneration
11-Dec-24 22-Jan-25 Innovate UK Smart grants
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
15-Dec-24 26-Jan-25 British Council SEA-UK Gender Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity (GEDI) Challenge Grant
17-Dec-24 28-Jan-25 Wellcome Trust Biology of fungal adaptation
17-Dec-24 28-Jan-25 Innovate UK Enhancing Efficiency in ISO Loading and Securing
18-Dec-24 29-Jan-25 Innovate UK Collaborative R&D: Creative Catalyst
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 Leverhulme Trust Emeritus fellowships
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
20-Dec-24 31-Jan-25 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) Innovations for Exceptionally Low-Cost Monoclonal Antibody (mAb) Manufacturing
20-Dec-24 31-Jan-25 Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Childhood Cancer Therapeutic Catalyst
21-Dec-24 01-Feb-25 University of California Ahmanson-Getty Core Program Fellowship
21-Dec-24 01-Feb-25 Medieval Institute Byzantine Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship
23-Dec-24 03-Feb-25 Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Drug development project
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
01-Jan-25 12-Feb-25 Innovate UK India – UK Collaborative R&D for industrial sustainability
01-Jan-25 12-Feb-25 Innovate UK Knowledge transfer partnerships
01-Jan-25 12-Feb-25 Medical Research Council (MRC) Expression of interest: Prosperity partnerships: advanced therapies safety and toxicity
02-Jan-25 13-Feb-25 Medical Research Council (MRC) MRC Centre of Research Excellence: round two: outline application
02-Jan-25 13-Feb-25 Innovate UK ARIA: Scalable Neural Interfaces: Opportunity seeds
03-Jan-25 14-Feb-25 Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Therapeutic catalyst
08-Jan-25 19-Feb-25 The British Academy (BA) Evidence-informed policymaking grants
08-Jan-25 19-Feb-25 Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Collaborate with German partners on arts and humanities research: round seven
08-Jan-25 19-Feb-25 Diabetes UK Project grants
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
14-Jan-25 25-Feb-25 Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) Open call for innovation - defence rapid impact innovation
14-Jan-25 25-Feb-25 Wellcome Trust Early-career awards
16-Jan-25 27-Feb-25 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) EPSRC-NSF: Exploiting Quantum Information Science in Chemistry
16-Jan-25 27-Feb-25 Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) Peace and security programme grants
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
20-Jan-25 03-Mar-25 BRACE Pilot grants
21-Jan-25 04-Mar-25 Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Astronomy observation and theory small awards
21-Jan-25 04-Mar-25 Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Astronomy large awards
21-Jan-25 04-Mar-25 Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Astronomy solar and planetary studies small awards
23-Jan-25 06-Mar-25 Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Postdoctoral Research Bursary for Clinical Trainees
23-Jan-25 06-Mar-25 Blood Cancer UK Project Grants
29-Jan-25 12-Mar-25 Royal Society Postdoctoral fellowship programme
04-Feb-25 18-Mar-25 Royal Society Newton International Fellowships - Natural Sciences
04-Feb-25 18-Mar-25 Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) Research Grants
05-Feb-25 19-Mar-25 Royal Society Wolfson fellowship
05-Feb-25 19-Mar-25 Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellowship
05-Feb-25 19-Mar-25 Medical Research Council (MRC) Developmental pathway funding scheme
07-Feb-25 21-Mar-25 Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grants
11-Feb-25 25-Mar-25 Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Postdoctoral fellowships
12-Feb-25 26-Mar-25 Pharmacy Research UK Research training bursaries
12-Feb-25 26-Mar-25 Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) Decarbonising the health and social care system
13-Feb-25 27-Mar-25 Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Early detection and diagnosis primer award
13-Feb-25 27-Mar-25 Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Career Establishment Awards
13-Feb-25 27-Mar-25 Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Senior cancer research fellowship
13-Feb-25 27-Mar-25 Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Clinician scientist fellowship
13-Feb-25 27-Mar-25 Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Early detection and diagnosis programme awards
13-Feb-25 27-Mar-25 Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) NERC Urgency Funding
13-Feb-25 27-Mar-25 Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Advanced clinician scientist fellowship
13-Feb-25 27-Mar-25 Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Career development fellowship
17-Feb-25 31-Mar-25 OFFERR OFFERR call for proposals
17-Feb-25 31-Mar-25 Diabetes UK Early-career small grants for basic scientists
17-Feb-25 31-Mar-25 Medical Research Council (MRC) Artificial intelligence, engineering biology and quantum technologies: highlight notice
18-Feb-25 01-Apr-25 Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Opening up the Environment
18-Feb-25 01-Apr-25 The British Academy (BA) Small research grants
18-Feb-25 01-Apr-25 Swiss National Science Foundation International co-investigator scheme
19-Feb-25 02-Apr-25 Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Discovery programme awards
19-Feb-25 02-Apr-25 Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Discovery programme foundation awards
19-Feb-25 02-Apr-25 Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Clinical Research Funding Scheme
25-Feb-25 08-Apr-25 Wellcome Trust Discovery awards
26-Feb-25 09-Apr-25 Royal Society Industry Fellowships
27-Feb-25 10-Apr-25 Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Locally Unlocking Culture through Inclusive Access (LUCIA)
  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 Dunhill Medical Trust DMT Academy Ignition Fund
  No deadline Medical Research Council (MRC) Collaborate with the functional genomics screening laboratory
  No deadline Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) AHRC Responsive Mode: Collaborate with Researchers in Luxembourg
  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 Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) AHRC responsive mode: UKRI NSF-SBE lead agency: round three
  No deadline Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Strategic infrastructure outlines
  Unknown Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Pre-announcement: Japan-UK Joint call for Quantum Technologies for Innovation
  No deadline Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Collaborate with researchers in Norway