Dates:
Publication date: 28 January 2025
Academic funding opportunity opening date: 3 February 2025. 9:00 am
Academic funding opportunity closing date: 18 June 2025, 4:00 pm
Non-academic funding opportunity opening date: 23 June 2025, 9:0 0am
Non-academic funding opportunity closing date: 5 November 2025, 11:00 am
Scope
Applications are encouraged from the entirety of the UKRI remit. Fellowships can lead and develop innovation. The fellowship may be made up of a single programme of work, or multiple consecutive or concurrent interlinked projects, led by the fellow. The work must allow you to fully develop your leadership potential and result in high quality research or innovation, or both.
Specific Themes
You must be an early career researcher or innovator who is either:
- looking to establish or transition to independence
- developing their own original and ambitious plans within a commercial setting
- You must be based at, and have the support of, an eligible academic or non-academic institution eligible for UKRI funding.
This funding opportunity aims to:
- develop, retain, attract and sustain research and innovation talent in the UK
- foster new research and innovation career paths including those at the academic, business and interdisciplinary boundaries, and facilitate movement of people between sectors
- provide sustained funding and resources for the best early career researchers and innovators
- provide long-term, flexible funding to tackle difficult and novel challenges, and support adventurous, ambitious programmes
Projects that will not be funded
- you have already achieved research or innovation independence (for example, by securing funding aimed at this career stage, or by already managing your own significant programme of work within a business)
- you are a senior academic or innovator
Eligibility
- Early career researchers and innovators who are either transitioning to or establishing independence, or developing their own original and ambitious plans within a commercial setting are eligible to apply to this funding opportunity.
- For applicants based in academic organisations, there is a fixed cap on the number of applicants who can apply from each institution.
Funding Rates
- Total eligible project costs between £300,000 and £2M
- Your project can last for up to four years, with the option to apply to renew for a further three years.
How PNO can support you
The UK team has a strong track record in securing some of the most competitive national and European grants on behalf of its clients, with a full understanding of how a project should be presented to stand the highest chance of success. Each year in the UK alone, we are responsible for the submission of more than 100 funding applications across all sectors and priority areas. Based on this extensive experience, through careful project selection and using key insight into how a project should be best positioned, we consistently achieve success rates that are more than 5 times the typical success rates for UK national schemes and EU programmes.
For further information or to discuss a project idea please contact PNO Consultants
0161 488 3488 | info.uk@pnoconsultants.com
