Grants in the United Kingdom

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Funds a project that runs cascading open-science sub-grants of EUR 100,000-250,000 to drive FAIR data practices and EOSC adoption across research communities.

Funds a full-scale flagship biorefinery that turns separately-collected urban bio-waste into higher-value bio-based products instead of compost or biomethane.

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Funds two projects, worth up to EUR 7 million each, developing ways to convert captured CO2 into synthetic fuels, chemicals or materials that can replace fossil feedstocks.

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Funds projects that deploy generative AI tools across the research data lifecycle within Europe's open-science cloud.

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Funds the advancement of existing vaccine candidates against one named epidemic-prone virus, from lab testing through to a first human safety trial.

Funds research into new tools and conversion routes that turn low-value forest residues into bio-based chemicals, materials or products beyond bioenergy.

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Paid one European consortium EUR 2 million to test at least 10 transdisciplinary pilots preparing mature research results for scale-up across Europe.

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Funds European teams building space-data services for the waste-to-energy value chain.

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Funds research turning hard-to-recycle waste streams like plastics, flue gases and desalination brine into fuels, chemicals and materials, with EU contributions up to EUR 4 million per project.

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Pays three European projects between EUR 2.8 million and EUR 8.4 million each to build an open-source Web 4.0 architecture or decentralised virtual-world applications, with only one winner allowed in the architecture track.

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Funds one consortium up to EUR 15 million to run the Women TechEU scheme, which itself re-grants up to EUR 75,000 to individual women-led deep-tech startups.

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Funds research projects worth EUR 3.4 million each that study the economic, social and environmental effects of reduced working time.

Awards cash prizes and global exposure to digital-health startups pitching at Germany's MEDICA trade fair.

Pays up to $5,000 in cash and prizes to the best hardware projects built on the Arduino UNO Q.

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Supports Alzheimer’s and dementia drug development from preclinical readiness to early clinical testing across diverse modalities.

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Funds new biomarkers for Alzheimer's and related dementias through PET ligands, MRI, spinal fluid, and brain activity measures.

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Supports dementia prevention research through precision risk reduction, combination treatment testing, and effectiveness comparisons.

Pays up to $50,000 to solvers who invent a plastic-free, compostable cold-cup material.

Awards $40,000 per track to teams solving real quantum problems for five global enterprises.

Pays startups, research teams and enterprises a share of $200,000 in prizes for solutions that turn quantum computing research into deployable industrial pilots across five sectors.

Offers $200,000 in prizes across five enterprise challenge streams for teams building quantum, AI and HPC solutions to real industrial problems.

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Funds NIST partnership research across metrology, nanotechnology, AI and advanced manufacturing, open to almost any non-federal organisation except individuals.

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Awards $1 million to one winning mental-health research team, and $250,000 each to three runners-up, developing new interventions for anxiety, depression or psychosis, worldwide.

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Funds a consortium to build a new EIT Label-certified micro-credentials programme teaching entrepreneurship and innovation to healthcare students.