Grant funders

UK Research and Innovation

Research council, England

Also known as UKRI, United Kingdom Resarch and Innovation

United Kingdom 7 open calls
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Open calls 7
Given in 2025 £348.8m
Typical grant £595k Middle half £409k to £998k
New grantees in 2025 22% first grant from this funder

Open calls

Transformative sustainable AI technologies Closes 10 Nov 2026 · Up to £603k Open UKRI Enabling AI adoption across science and engineering Closes 1 Dec 2026 · Up to £250k Open Apply for EuroHPC quantum technology funding Rolling, no deadline Open Access EuroHPC quantum computers through the pilot call Rolling, no deadline Open Access EuroHPC supercomputers for AI development (AI Factories) Rolling, no deadline Open Open access fund for longform publications: stage two Rolling, no deadline Open Access EuroHPC supercomputers for research computing Rolling, no deadline Open

Giving by year

22% of 2025 grantees were new to this funder 64% 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

London 351 grants · typical £848k
Scotland 182 grants · typical £930k
South East 181 grants · typical £909k
North West 137 grants · typical £755k
Yorkshire and The Humber 121 grants · typical £982k
South West 109 grants · typical £817k
East of England 108 grants · typical £882k
West Midlands 97 grants · typical £793k

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

Latest grants made

University college London Causal determinants of dementia with a vascular component (DVC-RISK) £593k 31 Jul 2027
University of reading Roman and Early Medieval Alloys Defined (REMADE): Reshaping Archaeological Metallurgy £594k 3 Apr 2027
University of cambridge Targeting tumour-promoting malignant cell-fibroblast crosstalk in pancreatic cancer £596k 31 Mar 2027
University of Birmingham Mycobacterial cell walls as inducers of cryptic antimicrobial coding genes in environmental microbes £3,074 28 Feb 2027
University of Plymouth Quake4D renewal project £584k 28 Feb 2027
University Of Edinburgh Nitrogen under Extreme Conditions: From Fundamental Physics to Novel Functional Materials £595k 13 Feb 2027
King's college London Advancing Statistical Physics Methods for Combinatorics, Algorithms, and Geometry £594k 31 Jan 2027
Lancaster University Ensuring effective protection and restoration for tropical freshwater ecosystems £592k 31 Jan 2027
Cardiff University New Technology for Glaciology - 2027-2029 £593k 31 Dec 2026
Keele University Tackling vector-borne diseases using Non-Replicating Virus Particles £1.9m 31 Dec 2026

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