Funding

EBNet has a variety of flexible funding opportunities over the Network’s lifetime. These include

• Proof of Concept (PoC) awards up to £100k
• Business Interaction Vouchers (BIV) up to £20k
• Placement awards up to £3,000 for knowledge exchange, allocated competitively by quarterly call
• ECR conference travel bursaries up to £1,500 allocated competitively for pre-selected conferences only
• Working groups to carry out activities related to their specific field of interest within the EBNet remit
• Grant preparation workshops/meetings – funding to support grant preparation. Contact us.

Details of all funded BIVs and POCs can be found on our Outcomes page.

IMPORTANT NOTE: EBNet has been extended until 31 January 2026, but the majority of the funding described above has now been allocated. For further information follow the links or contact us.

Other Funding

BBSRC New Investigator Award - don't miss! – Closing date: 14 Jan 2026 16:00 UK The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) is inviting applications for funding to support excellent new investigator-led research across the breadth of its scientific remit. This…Read more.

BBSRC Pioneer Awards 2025-6 stage 1 - deadline 19 Nov 2025 – Registration deadline (stage 1): 19 Nov 2025 16:00 UK BBSRC’s Pioneer Awards provide funding to pursue early-stage bioscience discovery research. Applications should open novel adventurous research avenues with the potential to transform the…Read more.

Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowships - closing 29 Jan 2026 – The Leverhulme Trust Emeritus Fellowships are intended to assist senior researchers who have retired or partially retired from an academic post to complete a research project and prepare the results for publication The primary aim …Read more.

Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorships - closes 1 May 2026 – The Leverhulme Trust's Visiting Professorship scheme is for UK institutions to invite an eminent senior professor from overseas, to bring genuinely novel expertise and enhance the skills and knowledge of academic staff and students in an…Read more.

Royal Commission fellowships - call closing 13 Jan 2026 – The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 awards a total of around 35 postgraduate Fellowships and Scholarships a year, for advanced study and research in science, engineering, the built environment and design. It also makes a small number of…Read more.

Funding Roundup

Our monthly Newsletters feature a round-up of all the latest funding.

Examples from earlier round-ups can be found below:

OCTOBER 2023: Funding Roundup – The Carbon Recycling Network: Proof of Concept Awards - 16 October 2023The Royal Society: International Collaboration Awards – International Science Partnerships Fund - 19 October 2023DEFRA: Farming Innovation Programme Small R&D Partnership…Read more.

SEPTEMBER 2023: Funding Roundup – The Royal Society: International Exchanges - 27 September 2023BBSRC: follow-on fund - 4 October 2023NERC: Independent Research Fellowship - 8 November 2023 NERC: Large grant to tackle big environmental science questions - 16 November 2023Innovate…Read more.

AUGUST 2023: Funding Roundup – EPSRC: Network Pluses in Energy to form next generation Supergen Hubs - 21 August 2023FCDO-UKRI Senior Research Fellowships 2023 - 29 August 2023Innovate UK: Improving observation capabilities of biodiversity in UK waters phase two - 6 September…Read more.