Funding

Opportunity status: Open
Funders: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Funding type: Grant
Total fund: £7,500,000
Minimum award: £250,000
Publication date: 4 March 2026
Opening date: 3 March 2026
Closing date: 14 May 2026

Apply for funding to support ambitious, collaborative research programmes.

Materials Innovation Partnership projects must:

• be co-created and co-delivered by business and academic partners
• focus on one or more of the six high-growth opportunity themes from the National Materials Innovation Strategy
• aim to create long-term prosperity for the UK

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) will fund 80% of the full economic cost (FEC).

The business cash contribution must at least match the amount funded by EPSRC.

Find out more and apply.