EPSRC - Research Council Follow-on Fund

The Follow-on Fund helps researchers to bridge the funding gap between traditional research grants and commercial funding by supporting the very early stage of turning research outputs into a commercial proposition.

Closing date: 4pm 26 Feb 2009.

ESRC - ESRC Professorial Fellowship Scheme 2008-09 Competition

The ESRC invites applications under the seventh round of the Professorial Fellowship Scheme. The scheme is designed to support leading social scientists working in the UK, by providing them with the freedom to pursue their own innovative and creative research agendas.

Closing date: 4pm on 12 February 2009

BBSRC - Collaborative scheme for systematics research

The Collaborative Scheme for Systematics Research (CoSyst) provides short-term funding for new collaborative research in systematics.

Closing date: 4pm 15 March 2009

NERC - Ecology and Hydrology Funding Initiative

The objective of EHFI is to promote wider engagement of researchers at UK universities and academic analogues with the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH), in order to strategically contribute to both the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Strategy and the CEH Science Strategy.

Closing date: 4pm 29 Jan 2009

AHRC - Small Research Grants - Beyond Text

The Small Research Grants in Beyond Text will support projects from less established as well as established senior scholars, and from those wishing to undertake small scale innovative or short projects of up to 18 months. The project can be for between £20,000 and £150,000 fEC.

Closing Date: 4pm 07 May 2009 

MRC - High-throughput sequencing hubs

The MRC invites proposals for high-throughput sequencing hubs with associated technical and bioinformatics support.

Closing Date: 4 pm Tuesday 24 February 2009

STFC - CASE studentships

The Science and Technology Facilities Council supports the CASE studentship scheme which supports research students working for a PhD degree on collaborative research with industry.

Closing Date: 4pm 30 Sep 2009

Royal Society - Theo Murphy Blue Skies awards

The Royal Society Theo Murphy Blue Skies award will further "blue skies" scientific discovery in the fields of science, technology and engineering (excluding mathematics).

Closing Date: 6 February 2009

Technology Strategy Board

Autmn Call 2008

Academic Expertise for Business (A4B) - A six year programme of support funded by the Welsh Assembly Government and European Structural Funds aimed at providing a simplified, integrated package of support for knowledge transfer from academia to business.

Current open calls include:

• Knowledge Transfer Centres
• Feasibility Studies
• Collaborative Industrial Research Projects