Top 10 Funding Opportunities:

Boosting Innovation for a Better Understanding of the Determinants of Health

The actions to be funded under this topic are expected to achieve expected impacts including, but not limited to, patients benefitting from preventive treatment or early disease intervention before onset of symptoms, prevention and early diagnosis of disease combined with better understanding of the mechanisms involved, leading to the development of more cost-effective strategies and patients benefitting from improved healthcare through regular monitoring of critical parameters using validated tools.

Critical Mass Programmes to Drive a Sustainable Future

This scheme is providing funding to support critical-mass transdisciplinary research programs that drive the transition to sustainable technologies and operations, clean energy, circular materials or interseasonal energy storage (IES) beyond hydrogen. Businesses are not eligible to apply but they are expected to be listed as project partners.

Global Collaborative Action Tackling Diarrhoeal Diseases in the Context of Climate and Health

This topic is seeking proposals that will contribute to expected outcomes (with the first being mandatory) including developing interventions to identify and control diarrhoeal diseases through generating late-stage clinical data in sub-Saharan Africa, implementation research combining interventions with current standard of care and generating evidence to evaluate the populations and geographies of most vulnerable to diarrheal diseases, understand the key underlying factors including those related to climate change, and understand the barriers to protect the people affected.

Novel Human in Vitro Models of Complex Disease

Researchers can apply for funding to lead a cluster in a coordinated network for novel human in vitro models of complex disease. Clusters should be focused on the development, validation and adaptation of human in vitro disease models for ready adoption by end users in academia, industry or both and specific disease areas of high unmet need or addressing common needs with relevance to multiple disease domains.

EIT RawMaterials – ERMA Booster Call (March 2025) – Research and Development

This call is providing access to funding, expert guidance, and Europe’s largest network of industry leaders to help start-ups, scale-ups, and mining projects active in the raw materials value chain to scale their business and solve Europe’s critical raw materials challenges. Start-ups can receive funding of up to €500,000, scale-ups and SMEs can receive up to €1,500,000 and mining projects can receive up to €2,500,000.

EIT RawMaterials – ERMA Booster Call (March 2025) – Business Growth

This call is providing access to funding, expert guidance, and Europe’s largest network of industry leaders to help start-ups, scale-ups, and mining projects active in the raw materials value chain to scale their business and solve Europe’s critical raw materials challenges. Start-ups can receive funding of up to €500,000, scale-ups and SMEs can receive up to €1,500,000 and mining projects can receive up to €2,500,000.

Research to Advance UK Recycling Capabilities

This scheme provides funding for research to accelerate UK recycling capabilities. Projects must involve relevant stakeholders and progress the development of more energy-efficient, scalable, environmentally sustainable, and economically viable recycling and separation technologies and the systems needed to support them.

Welsh Election Study 2026

Research organisations can apply funding to run the Scottish Election Study for the 2026 devolved election. Businesses, third sector organisations or government body project co-leads based in the UK can also be included on research grant proposals as a Project co-lead.

Carbon Negative Challenge Fund – Capital Funding – Building Acquisition and Renovation

The Fund aims to open pathways for the region to reach carbon negative by 2040 by supporting the development and delivery of projects that can unlock carbon savings, increase carbon sequestration, and support climate Adaptation. Eligible costs can include installation of renewable energy generation, grid connection, on site infrastructure, low carbon equipment/machinery and capacity to support any of the capital delivery activity detailed above where it is directly attributable to the creation or maintenance of a capital asset.

Carbon Negative Challenge Fund – Capital Funding – Energy Efficient Equipment

The Fund aims to open pathways for the region to reach carbon negative by 2040 by supporting the development and delivery of projects that can unlock carbon savings, increase carbon sequestration, and support climate Adaptation. Eligible costs can include project scoping, community engagement, feasibility studies and business case development.