Funding

We are offering small grants for Cambridge University researchers pursuing innovative applications of AI in research or real-world contexts with a focus on inter and multidisciplinary collaboration. This year applications are open under three categories: Early Career Seed Funding: Small grants of...

Jointly awarded by the Royal Society, the British Academy and the Royal Academy of Engineering, and supported generously by the Leverhulme Trust, the APEX Awards offer established independent researchers the opportunity to pursue interdisciplinary and curiosity-driven research with partners from...

The National Institute for Health and Care Research’s Team Science Camp is now open for applications. It aims to bring together researchers interested in decarbonising healthcare, social care, and research systems from various disciplines, career stages and with a wide range of experiences to...

We invite applications for a fully-funded at Home fees 4-year PhD studentship project to investigate a newly discovered mechanism of translational regulation in bacteria, with the potential to reveal fundamental insights into gene expression and microbial adaptation, based in the Department of...

The European Union has launched the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2025 , with a committed focus on deepening EU-Africa cooperation in Research and Innovation (R&I). This includes the publication of Africa Initiative III , which allocates €500.5 million across 24 calls for proposals , aimed at...

ERC Advanced Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are already established research leaders with a recognised track record of research achievements. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and...

The University is pleased to invite project proposals for inclusion in the next round of the MRC Industrial CASE (iCASE) Studentship Programme. This prestigious initiative supports collaborative PhD projects between academia and industry, offering a valuable opportunity to attract talented...

We are pleased to announce that Round 3 of the Royal Society’s 2024-25 Wolfson Fellowships scheme will be opening next week (11 th June), and the University’s internal selection process will now commence. The programme is to enable UK Universities to strategically recruit and attract outstanding...

Public Engagement Starter Fund is an exciting opportunity for University of Cambridge researchers to apply for small grants to undertake innovative public engagement with research activities.The fund supports novel projects based on contemporary research at the University of Cambridge which aim to...

The Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund was established in 2012, with generous support from The ALBORADA Trust. The Fund supports pairs of researchers (post-doctoral level and above) from the University of Cambridge (or an affiliated institution such as the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, NIAB...