Funding Opportunities

We support researchers and their teams in applying for research grants and keep this list updated with upcoming opportunities that may be of interest to our community.

External funding opportunities

November

DARE UK Real-world Research Exemplar Programme – UKRI
5 November 2025, Total fund £4.7M

AI for Information Security call for proposals - Fall 2025 - Amazon Science
Deadline 5 November 2025, USD$80K

AWS Agentic AI call for proposals — Fall 2025 - Amazon Science
Deadline 5 November 2025, USD$70K

Access to high performance computing facilities: autumn 2025 – UKRI
Deadline 6 November 2025

Career Development Fellowship | Royal Society
Funding talented early career scientists from underrepresented groups in STEM
Deadline 19 November 2025, max £690K

Technical PhD Fellowships - Future of Life Institute
AI Existential Safety – Deadline 21 November 2025, USD$210K
US-China AI Governance – Deadline 21 November 2025, USD$210K

Data for Children's and Young People's Cancer Programme Award | Cancer Research UK
Deadline 27 November 2025, max £2.5M

December

Programme Grants for Applied Research - October 2025 | NIHR
Deadline 2 December 2025, max £5M

Longitude Prize on ALS | Challenge Works
AI-based approaches to transform therapeutic discovery for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
Stage 1 deadline 3 December 2025, max award £1.8M

Artificial intelligence (AI) for environmental science phase one – UKRI
Deadline 11 December 2025, max award £400K
This opportunity has a demand management process in place. Please contact RIS for details.

External funding opportunities

November

December

February

March

Open

Horizon Europe