Funders: Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
Funding type: Grant
Total fund: £20,000,000
Award range: £1,120,000 – £3,450,000
Publication date: 2 October 2025
Opening date: 16 October 2025
Closing date: 26 February 2026
Apply for funding to support innovative, large-scale and complex projects that tackle big environmental science questions and have the potential to produce world-leading research.
We welcome multi and interdisciplinary research, as long as it is predominantly within the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)’s remit, delivered by collaborative teams.
Funding of between £1.12 million and £3.45 million (at 100% full economic cost) is available for projects lasting up to five years. We expect to fund up to eight projects.