Non-cash awards
Explore non-cash awards and in-kind support. This directory lists funding that arrives as compute credits, lab and facility access, testing time, mentoring, vouchers and services rather than money, from public programs, research infrastructures and corporate partners.
Showing 1-24 of 139 grants
Early independence: career development fellowship
🇬🇧MRC · United Kingdom
A fellowship for medical researchers taking a first step towards independence.
Doctoral focal awards in data-intensive sciences
🇬🇧STFC · United Kingdom
Funding for doctoral training in data-intensive sciences.
NVIDIA Academic Grant Program
NVIDIA · United States
Provides in-kind GPU compute and hardware to faculty-led research at PhD-granting universities.
Advancing atmospheric and aerial autonomy
🇬🇧NERC · United Kingdom
Proof-of-concept support for autonomous environmental observing capability.
Doctoral focal award: UKRI venture doctorates: outline stage
🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom
Funding for entrepreneurship-focused doctoral training and venture creation.
Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study Biospecimen Access
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds nothing — it hands over urine, plasma, serum and DNA from the national tobacco and health study. The research costs stay yours.
SciELO Chile Indexing (Indexación SciELO Chile)
🇨🇱ANID · Chile
Funds Chilean scientific publishing infrastructure and journal indexing support to strengthen real-world implementation.
UKRI translation: MRC proof of concept: stage two
🇬🇧MRC · United Kingdom
Funding for invited academic-led translational health projects.
UKRI Translation: MRC Impact Acceleration Awards
🇬🇧MRC · United Kingdom
Single-step support for high-risk medical product development.
UKRI Translation: MRC Proof of Concept: stage one
🇬🇧MRC · United Kingdom
Funding for academic-led development of novel health interventions.
UK Obesity Research Institute: full application
🇬🇧MRC · United Kingdom
Establish a collaborative institute for mechanistic obesity research.
Discovery of the Genetic Basis of Childhood Cancers and of Congenital Anomalies: Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research Program
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds whole-genome or related sequencing of pediatric cancer or congenital-anomaly cohort samples through the Kids First biobank.
Accelerating Discovery through Partnered Research with All of Us to Analyze Participant Biospecimens
NIH · United States
Funds running new assays on stored blood, serum and DNA from the All of Us Research Program's biobank.
Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Cohort Data and Biospecimen Access
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds access to existing ECHO Cohort data or biospecimens to study a high-priority question in maternal and child health.
NHLBI TOPMed: Omics Phenotypes of Heart, Lung, and Blood Disorders
NIH · United States
Funds no new studies directly — it grants approved investigators access to NIH's shared genetic and multi-omics data on heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders.
Biological Testing Facility for Contraception & Reproductive Health
NIH · United States
Funds access to NIH's own Biological Testing Facility for contraceptive or reproductive-health work — a service award, open to applicants worldwide.
Access EuroHPC quantum computers through the pilot call
🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom
Apply for quantum-computing time linked to EuroHPC supercomputers.
Access EuroHPC supercomputers for AI development (AI Factories)
🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom
Apply for EuroHPC compute time to train and develop large AI models.
Access EuroHPC supercomputers for research computing
🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom
Apply for time on Europe's most powerful supercomputers. No cash — compute.
AgriTech Accelerator
🇶🇦QSTP · Qatar
Offers a short QSTP startup acceleration for climate and food-security technologies in Qatar.
AI for Health — Azure Credit Award
AI for Good Lab · United States
Supports global health nonprofits and researchers with AI compute resources and scientific collaboration opportunities.
AIM (Artificial Intelligence Make)
🇸🇦NTDP · Saudi Arabia
Provides Saudi organizations with AI infrastructure access, talent development, industrial challenge programs, and venture scaling support.
ALI Program — Local Innovation Agents (Agentes Locais de Inovação)
🇧🇷SEBRAE · Brazil
Offers free innovation advisory support in Brazil for micro and small enterprises through Sebrae.
BBSRC new investigator award: applicant-led mode
🇬🇧BBSRC · United Kingdom
Support for new investigator-led biotechnology and biological research.