Digital Dairy Chain

Funder: Scottish Government

EoI Deadline: 27 September 2024

This Scottish Government funding provides support for renewable hydrogen production projects.

The funding will help cover development costs for projects that focus on the low-cost, efficient, and sustainable production of renewable hydrogen.

Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh & Williamson Trust

Deadline: 05 December 2024, 12:00 pm

‘Healthy Planet, Healthy People’: Community-led Awards are designed to support community-led research. The awards are available to cover eligible costs arising from a defined research project. Funding will be provided to support new and existing research projects that promote the health of individuals through fostering healthy environments and communities, and enabling access to healthy foods.

Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh

Deadline: 24 October 2024, 12:00 pm

RSE Small Research Grants are designed to support personally conducted high-quality research. The awards are available to cover eligible costs arising from a defined research project. They are designed to encourage high-quality research and academic innovation.

Funder: The Royal Society of Edinburgh

Deadline: 24 October 2024, 12:00 pm

Designed to encourage collaborations between disciplines and/or institutions to advance exploration of an important topic. The grant can be held in any discipline or subject area.

Funder: Innovate UK

Deadline: Wednesday 23 October 2024 11:00am

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £25 million for game-changing and commercially viable R&D innovations that can significantly impact the UK economy.

Innovate UK Smart grant has focused scope and eligibility criteria to support micro, small or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and their partners in developing genuinely new innovations with significant potential for rapid economic return to the UK.

Funder: Cumbria Community Foundation via Cumberland Council

The initiative brings together a group of dynamic food and drink businesses, providing a unique opportunity to work on individual projects aimed at driving your business forward.

The programme starts late September and is open to all businesses across the food and drink sector in Cumberland.

Funder: North Lanarkshire Council and part-funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.

Inspirent and CEIS are delighted to be delivering an 18-month programme of support to the Social Enterprise sector across North Lanarkshire.

Deadline for EoI: 19 September 2024

A UK (Scottish) start-up developing compostable, functional & smart packaging from onion skin seeks R&D partners for pilot-scale development to apply for the EIC Pathfinder “Nature inspired alternatives for food packaging and films for agriculture"

Application Deadline: 20 September 2024, 12pm

AHDB is undertaking environmental baselining work on a network of farms comprising approximately 170 farms across GB where it aims to establish a net carbon balance, taking account of GHG emissions and carbon sequestration (above and below ground) and capture a range of metrics of relevance to evaluating natural capital and monitoring the environmental impact of different land management approaches.

AHDB are seeking a partner to provide soil sampling and analysis services to inform the assessment of:
a) soil carbon stocks
b) soil nutrients, texture and biological indicators

Funder: Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)

Deadline: 12 November 2024 4:00pm UK time

You can only apply for this funding opportunity if we have invited you to do so following a successful outline application.

Our Large Grants are intended to support adventurous, large-scale and complex research, tackling big science questions that cannot be addressed through our other funding opportunities. You can submit an application in any area of environmental science, provided it is predominantly within a research area or subject associated with NERC’s remit.