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UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships in Lancashire

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Background

This competition is jointly operated by Innovate UK (IUK) and Medical Research Council (MRC). This funding is from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

Objectives of Fund

Future Leaders Fellowships (FLF) support talented people in universities, businesses, and other research and innovation environments. They also allow universities, research institutes, independent research organisations and businesses to develop their most talented early career researchers and innovators or to attract new people to their organisations, including from overseas.

The aim of this competition is to:

  • Support ambitious research and innovation to tackle difficult and novel challenges.
  • Support excellence in innovation, across interdisciplinary boundaries and sectors.
  • Develop, retain, and attract the next wave of research and innovation leaders.
Working with a host organisation a Future Leaders Fellow will receive at least four years’ of funding to pursue an ambitious programme of innovation. The fellow will also have access to tailored opportunities and resources to develop their career as a future leader in their field.

Value Notes

Up to £110 million has been allocated to fund industrial research projects and experimental development projects in this round of the programme.

Each project's total grant funding request must be between £100,000 and £3 million.

Proposals are invited from all areas of research and innovation, including:

  • The arts, humanities, and social sciences.
  • The seven technology families outlined in the UK's innovation strategy.
  • Applications that are multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary.
Research and innovation is considered in its fullest sense including business, creative, cultural, service and knowledge-based sectors.

Match Funding Restrictions

If as a host organisation, the work on the project is commercial or economic, the funding request must not exceed the limits below.

For industrial research projects, applicants could get funding for their eligible project costs of up to:

  • 70% if they are a micro or small organisation.
  • 60% if they are a medium sized organisation.
  • 50% if they are a large organisation.
  • 100% if they are classified as an eligible research organisation.
For experimental development projects which are nearer to market, applicants could get funding for their eligible project costs of up to:

  • 45% if they are a micro or small organisation.
  • 35% if they are a medium sized organisation.
  • 25% if they are a large organisation.
  • 100% if they are classified as an eligible research organisation.
Applicants must secure the remaining percentage of the overall project costs, either from their own resources or from elsewhere, as match funding.

Who Can Apply

The application must be started by the fellow as a representative of the host organisation.

To host a Future Leaders Fellow an organisation must be a UK registered business of any size, charitable organisation, catapult, public organisation, Agri-tech Centre, and eligible research organisation.

Research organisations eligible to receive UKRI funding cannot apply to host a fellowship through this application form. Fellowship applications for these organisations must be made through the UKRI funding service.

Projects must be based at, or have the support of, an eligible non-academic host organisation.

Location

United Kingdom

Restrictions

IUK is not funding projects that are:

  • Submitted by senior innovators.
  • Supporting business as usual activities.
  • Led by an applicant who has achieved research or innovation independence, for example, managing their own significant programme of work within a business.
IUK cannot fund projects that are:

  • Dependent on export performance, for example, giving a subsidy to a baker on the condition that it exports a certain quantity of bread to another country.
  • Dependent on domestic inputs usage, for example, giving a subsidy to a baker on the condition that it uses 50% UK flour in their product.

How To Apply

Applications for Round 10 of funding will open on 23 June 2025 and close on 5 November 2025 (11:00).

Applications are made online.

More information can be accessed at the IUK website.

Contact IUK for further information.

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