AI grants in the United Kingdom
Explore AI grants for companies in the United Kingdom. This list brings together funding for machine learning, foundation models, AI infrastructure and applied AI from UK innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in the United Kingdom, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at AI in the United Kingdom come first.
Showing 1-24 of 602 grants
Optical wireless communications research and testing facility
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
Funding to establish a national optical wireless communications test facility.
Doctoral focal awards in data-intensive sciences
🇬🇧STFC · United Kingdom
Funding for doctoral training in data-intensive sciences.
DRIVE35 innovation fund: collaborate three
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Collaborative R&D for zero emission vehicle technologies and manufacturing.
Quantum computing applications for large scale impact: CR&D
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Build quantum software that solves a named industrial problem better than classical methods.
AI Growth Lab
🇬🇧DSIT · United Kingdom
Regulatory engagement for AI use cases in legal services.
Early Independence: Ernest Rutherford Fellowships 2026
🇬🇧STFC · United Kingdom
A fellowship for early-career researchers building an independent STFC research niche.
Japan-UK Joint call for collaborations in Advanced Connectivity Technologies
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
Collaborative UK-Japan research in advanced connectivity technologies.
An AI Foundation Toxicology Model and Framework to Support Waiving a Second Species in Drug Safety Studies
🇨🇦IHI JU · European Union
Funds development of an AI toxicology model that lets drug developers waive costly second-species animal safety testing.
EPSRC Strategic Infrastructure 2026
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
Funding for strategic infrastructure and resources to support existing infrastructure.
Future computing paradigms Network Plus
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
Build a multidisciplinary network for future computing paradigms.
Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP): 2026 – 2027 Round 3
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
A university and a business share a graduate for a project neither could run alone.
Next generation artificial intelligence (AI): explainable AI
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
Funding for speculative, high-risk fundamental research in explainable AI.
Advancing atmospheric and aerial autonomy
🇬🇧NERC · United Kingdom
Proof-of-concept support for autonomous environmental observing capability.
Collaborate with the UK Human Functional Genomics Initiative
🇬🇧MRC · United Kingdom
Test an academic-industry functional-genomics idea and generate early data.
UKRI translation: MRC proof of concept: stage two
🇬🇧MRC · United Kingdom
Funding for invited academic-led translational health projects.
Transformative sustainable AI technologies
🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom
Funding for speculative, high-risk research on sustainable AI technologies.
UKRI Translation: MRC Impact Acceleration Awards
🇬🇧MRC · United Kingdom
Single-step support for high-risk medical product development.
UK Obesity Research Institute: full application
🇬🇧MRC · United Kingdom
Establish a collaborative institute for mechanistic obesity research.
UK-Singapore CRD 2026
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Funding for UK-Singapore industrial research collaborations.
Focal awards: multilingual futures for UK growth and connectivity
🇬🇧AHRC · United Kingdom
Doctoral training in language-grounded research through HEI-led consortia.
Visa Fees Reimbursement Scheme for Scale Ups
🇬🇧DBT · United Kingdom
Visa-fee reimbursement for eligible international hires at UK scale-ups.
Flexible Skills Programme — 2026/27 Tranche
🇬🇧Welsh Gov · United Kingdom
Funds Welsh employers to build workforce capability, including specialist training in artificial intelligence tools.
Flexible Skills Programme — FY2026/27
🇬🇧Welsh Gov · United Kingdom
Funds Welsh employers to build workforce capability, including specialist training in artificial intelligence tools.
Accelerated Knowledge Transfer Partnerships 6
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Supports rapid partnerships between United Kingdom businesses and academic teams to transfer innovation into commercialization.