Natural Environment Research Council

Research council, England

Also known as NERC

United Kingdom 12 open calls

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Open calls 12

Given in 2025 £116.7m

Typical grant £470k Middle half £82k to £801k

New grantees in 2025 0% first grant from this funder

Open calls

Research Infrastructure Renewal Closes 21 Oct 2026 Open Advancing atmospheric and aerial autonomy Closes 21 Oct 2026 Open Resilient economy and security through ecosystem transitions grants Closes 22 Oct 2026 · Up to £2.5m Open Large Grant full applications: November 2026 (invite only) Closes 5 Nov 2026 Open Exploring the frontiers of environmental research 2026 Closes 12 Nov 2026 Open Water4All 2026 call: sustainable water management Closes 6 Apr 2027 · Up to £313k Open Biodiversa+ 2026 to 2027: novel ecosystems (BiodivFuture) Closes 16 Apr 2027 · Up to £375k Open Pushing the frontiers of environmental research Rolling, no deadline · Up to £950k Open Work with US-based researchers on environmental science: NERC-NSF lead agency Rolling, no deadline Open Work with Brazilian researchers: NERC FAPESP lead agency Rolling, no deadline Open UK International Ocean Drilling Programme moratorium awards Rolling, no deadline Open NERC urgency funding Rolling, no deadline · Up to £100k Open

Giving by year

£200.7m 2017 433

£178.1m 2018 418

£267.4m 2019 520

£188.6m 2020 448

£185.0m 2021 393

£277.1m 2022 527

£201.1m 2023 334

£253.0m 2024 247

£116.7m 2025 188

£81.3m 2026 105

0% of 2025 grantees were new to this funder 88% of grantees are funded again within three years

Amount and number of grants we hold records for in each year, which can be less than everything the funder gave. The current year is incomplete.

Where it gives

South East 1,678 grants · typical £221k

South West 1,067 grants · typical £244k

Scotland 1,036 grants · typical £215k

East of England 886 grants · typical £246k

Yorkshire and The Humber 845 grants · typical £252k

London 833 grants · typical £235k

North West 647 grants · typical £241k

East Midlands 436 grants · typical £125k

All years we hold. Grants with no recorded place are left out.

Latest grants made

Durham University Are huge landslide-tsunami more frequent, larger and less predictably linked to glacial cycles? £753k 31 Dec 2027

University of Oxford Enhancing our understanding of volcanic clouds using long-term satellite records and next-generation instruments £907k 31 Oct 2027

University Of Edinburgh Mechanisms underpinning resilience to climate-mediated trophic mismatch £800k 31 Mar 2027

National Oceanography Centre DANCE - eDdy-mediated mechAnisms supplying Nitrogen resourCEs £1.2m 31 Mar 2027

University of Exeter The co-evolution of learning and social structure: how minds shape societies and societies shape minds £797k 31 Dec 2026

University of southampton 3D and 4D imaging of mid-ocean ridge magma-hydrothermal interactions £832k 31 Dec 2026

University of Exeter BREATHE: Bridging REspiration And phoTosynthesis in eartH systEm science £798k 31 Oct 2026

University of Exeter Next-generation modelling of future hazards in dynamic foreland rivers (DFRs) £797k 30 Sep 2026

Northumbria University Net Zero Polar Science £993k 30 Sep 2026

Loughborough University Informatics for Multi-hazard Risk Resilience (i-Risk) £993k 30 Sep 2026

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