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Closed | IUK | Grant | 10,000,000 | 2023-05-23T00:00:00+01:00 | 2023-05-15T09:30:00+01:00 | 2023-06-28T11:00:00+01:00 | 64517ad0-cfb3-5d70-8904-44d15c2527a2 | Advancing precision medicine: round two | See the [full opportunity details on the Innovation Funding Service](https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1573/overview/910e2dcf-796d-49e4-bf12-efa1f2be06db).
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £20 million over two rounds of this competition.
The competition will fund p... | # Funding opportunity: Advancing precision medicine: round two
| Field | Value |
|--------------------|------------------------------|
| Opportunity Status | Closed |
| Funders | Innovate UK |
| Funding Type | Grant ... | null | [] | https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/advancing-precision-medicine-round-two/ | null | 20,000,000 | 10,000,000 | null | null | null |
Closed | IUK | Grant | 20,000,000 | 2023-01-23T00:00:00+00:00 | 2023-01-16T10:30:00+00:00 | 2023-03-08T11:00:00+00:00 | 89e00afa-01e7-5d02-b641-7d1502da8277 | Advancing precision medicine | See the [full opportunity details on the Innovation Funding Service](https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1435/overview/b162caef-c6ac-4b08-a9e5-af101ed83287).
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £20 million over 2 rounds of this funding opportunity. The funding opportunit... | # Funding opportunity: Advancing precision medicine
| Field | Value |
|--------------------|---------------------------------|
| Opportunity Status | Closed |
| Funders | Innovate UK |
| Funding Type | Grant ... | null | [] | https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/advancing-precision-medicine/ | null | 20,000,000 | null | null | null | null |
Closed | IUK | Grant | 1,500,000 | 2021-06-30T00:00:00+01:00 | 2021-06-28T09:30:00+01:00 | 2021-07-28T11:00:00+01:00 | 3a4f68f0-837b-5fbd-8b36-95bcd1239fee | Advancing safely to full vehicle automation | See the [full opportunity details on the Innovation Funding Service](https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/management/competition/setup/public-content/949).
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1.5 million for up to three automated vehicle projects.
## Eligibility summary
This compe... | # Funding opportunity: Advancing safely to full vehicle automation
| Field | Value |
|--------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Opportunit... | null | [] | https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/advancing-safely-to-full-vehicle-automation/ | The Department for Transport (DfT) and the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) | 20,000,000 | null | null | null | null |
Closed | EPSRC | Grant | 2,000,000 | 2021-04-23T00:00:00+01:00 | 2021-04-23T00:00:00+01:00 | 2021-07-08T16:00:00+01:00 | 6bc9d24e-92a3-56bd-9084-c68c4c264833 | Adventurous energy research for a sustainable net zero: outlines | Apply for funding for high-risk decarbonisation research to develop or model:
* materials
* devices
* fuels
* technologies.
Mathematical, digital, artificial intelligence and software-based solutions are excluded.
Solutions must be sustainable beyond 2050 and compatible with a circular economy.
You must be a UK-bas... | # Funding opportunity: Adventurous energy research for a sustainable net zero: outlines
| Field | Value |
|--------------------|------------------------------------------------------------|
| Opportunity Status | Closed ... | null | [
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... | https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/adventurous-energy-research-for-a-sustainable-net-zero-outlines/ | null | 250,000 | null | null | null | null |
Closed | EPSRC | Grant | 4,000,000 | 2022-12-12T00:00:00+00:00 | 2022-12-12T00:00:00+00:00 | 2023-02-15T16:00:00+00:00 | 366d0466-16db-5a7b-b1bf-0ebf80e00832 | Adventurous manufacturing round 2 follow-on funding | This funding opportunity is open only to successful primary investigators from adventurous manufacturing round 2.
You can apply for further funding to extend the research in progress to further facilitate highly transformative research which has the potential to disrupt the future manufacturing landscape. It should su... | # Funding opportunity: Adventurous manufacturing round 2 follow-on funding
| Field | Value |
|--------------------|------------------------------------------------------------|
| Opportunity Status | Closed ... | null | [
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"_text": "This funding opportunity is open only to those who were successful in the ‘adventurous manufacturing round 2’ opportunity in 2020. Only 1 application pe... | https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/adventurous-manufacturing-round-2-follow-on-funding/ | null | 1,000,000 | null | null | null | null |
Closed | EPSRC | Grant | 4,000,000 | 2021-02-18T00:00:00+00:00 | 2021-02-18T00:00:00+00:00 | 2021-04-29T16:00:00+01:00 | 8a465b22-3ae6-5679-9015-588789353b62 | Adventurous manufacturing round one: follow-on funding | This opportunity is for successful applicants from adventurous manufacturing round one only.
You can apply for further funding to extend the research in progress and enhance the impact of the initiative. You should address how your proposal will build on the research conducted in your initial project.
Your research m... | # Funding opportunity: Adventurous manufacturing round one: follow-on funding
| Field | Value |
|--------------------|------------------------------------------------------------|
| Opportunity Status | Closed ... | null | [
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"_text": "Only one proposal may be received for each adventurous manufacturing round one project. A change of principal investigator from stage one would only be ... | https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/adventurous-manufacturing-round-one-follow-on-funding/ | null | 1,500,000 | null | null | null | null |
Closed | EPSRC | Grant | 3,000,000 | 2023-07-04T00:00:00+01:00 | 2023-06-28T09:00:00+01:00 | 2023-09-06T16:00:00+01:00 | cdf730ae-9b17-56a4-963a-f4a7165e4512 | Adventurous Manufacturing Round three | "Apply for funding for exceptional and potentially transformative science and engineering research p(...TRUNCATED) | "# Funding opportunity: Adventurous Manufacturing Round three\n\n| Field | Value (...TRUNCATED) | [{"date":"25 July 2023","text":"Stage two interview date updated in 'How we will assess your applica(...TRUNCATED) | [{"header":"Who can apply","level":2,"content":[{"header":null,"level":null,"content":null,"_text":"(...TRUNCATED) | https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/adventurous-manufacturing-round-three/ | null | 250,000 | null | 24 | 24 | null |
Closed | NERC | Fellowship | 75,000 | 2021-11-08T00:00:00+00:00 | 2021-11-11T00:00:00+00:00 | 2021-12-22T16:00:00+00:00 | 02439052-0077-5e4a-94ae-cc6e2df22f32 | Advise on the commissioning of NERC’s environmental data service | "Apply for funding to provide independent expertise for the commissioning of the NERC Environmental (...TRUNCATED) | "# Funding opportunity: Advise on the commissioning of NERC’s environmental data service\n\n| Fiel(...TRUNCATED) | null | [{"header":"Who can apply","level":2,"content":[{"header":null,"level":null,"content":null,"_text":"(...TRUNCATED) | https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/advise-on-the-commissioning-of-nercs-environmental-data-service/ | null | 75,000 | null | 24 | 24 | null |
Closed | STFC | Grant | 3,000,000 | 2025-09-01T00:00:00+01:00 | 2025-09-01T09:00:00+01:00 | 2025-10-23T16:00:00+01:00 | b48056af-8b4f-52f4-840d-5c53fab74fe4 | Africa-UK physics partnership collaborative projects 2025 | "Apply for funding for collaborative physics projects addressing the challenges of climate change, e(...TRUNCATED) | "# Funding opportunity: Africa-UK physics partnership collaborative projects 2025\n\n| Field (...TRUNCATED) | [
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Closed | STFC | Grant | 5,000,000 | 2024-07-04T00:00:00+01:00 | 2024-07-09T09:00:00+01:00 | 2024-09-17T16:00:00+01:00 | 4017a810-66a7-597d-a174-52f5cba88012 | Africa-UK physics partnership collaborative research projects | "Apply for funding for collaborative physics-led projects addressing the challenges of climate chang(...TRUNCATED) | "# Funding opportunity: Africa-UK physics partnership collaborative research projects\n\n| Field (...TRUNCATED) | null | [{"header":"Who can apply","level":2,"content":[{"header":null,"level":null,"content":null,"_text":"(...TRUNCATED) | https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/africa-uk-physics-partnership-collaborative-research-projects/ | null | 1,000,000 | null | null | 36 | 80 |
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UKRI Funding Opportunities
A structured dataset of 2,102 funding opportunities published by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) across all nine constituent bodies (AHRC, BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC, IUK, MRC, NERC, RE, STFC, and cross-council UKRI calls).
This dataset accompanies the paper "Demystifying Funding: Reconstructing a Unified Dataset of the UK Funding Lifecycle" (NSLP 2026) and the GtR Database repository.
Background
UKRI publishes funding opportunities on its website but provides no structured, machine-readable export. Key metadata such as award ranges, total fund values, UKRI contribution percentages, and project durations are frequently stated only within prose, distributed across document sections. This dataset makes that information available in a structured format for research and analysis.
Collection
All pending, open, and closed opportunities were scraped from the UKRI Opportunity Finder between 12 February 2026 and 22 March 2026 using Playwright browser automation. Raw HTML pages were parsed into a tree-structured representation preserving the document hierarchy (summary, accordion sections, subsections). Because opportunity status and closing dates change over time, this dataset represents a snapshot at the time of collection.
Metadata Extraction
Several fields (total_funding, minimum_award, maximum_award, funding_percentage, minimum_funding_duration, maximum_funding_duration) are not always present in the structured metadata table on the opportunity page. Where absent, they were extracted from the opportunity prose using an LLM-based closed-domain question-answering pipeline. The pipeline uses hierarchical retrieval (hybrid BM25 + dense similarity with branch-deduplication) to select relevant passages, which are then passed to GPT-4o-mini for extraction. Evaluation on 101 manually annotated opportunities (489 question-answer pairs) showed 87.0% overall accuracy. See the accompanying paper for full details.
Fields sourced from the structured metadata table on each opportunity page (status, funders, co_funders, funding_type, publication_date, opening_date, closing_date, href) are deterministically parsed and are not subject to extraction errors.
Fields
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
id |
string | UUID5 identifier derived from the canonical URL |
title |
string | Opportunity title |
status |
string | Status at time of collection (Closed, Open, Upcoming) |
funders |
string | Comma-separated UKRI funder codes (e.g. "EPSRC", "AHRC, ESRC") |
co_funders |
string | Comma-separated co-funding organisations, if any |
funding_type |
string | Type of funding (e.g. Grant, Fellowship, Studentship) |
publication_date |
string | ISO 8601 date the opportunity was published |
opening_date |
string | ISO 8601 date the opportunity opened for applications |
closing_date |
string | ISO 8601 date the opportunity closed |
summary |
string | Plain-text summary of the opportunity |
full_text |
string | Full opportunity content as markdown |
sections |
list | Hierarchical tree of accordion sections (header, content, children) |
updates |
list | Date-text pairs of opportunity updates, if any |
href |
string | Canonical URL to the opportunity page |
total_funding |
int | Total fund value in GBP (may be LLM-extracted) |
minimum_award |
int | Minimum award value in GBP (may be LLM-extracted) |
maximum_award |
int | Maximum award value in GBP (may be LLM-extracted) |
funding_percentage |
int | UKRI contribution percentage (may be LLM-extracted) |
minimum_funding_duration |
int | Minimum project duration in months (may be LLM-extracted) |
maximum_funding_duration |
int | Maximum project duration in months (may be LLM-extracted) |
Limitations
- Snapshot: Opportunity statuses and closing dates are as of collection (Feb--Mar 2026) and may have since changed.
- Coverage: Not all UKRI-funded activity corresponds to a published opportunity; responsive mode schemes and formula-based allocations are not represented.
- Extraction accuracy: LLM-extracted fields have an overall accuracy of 87.0%. The most common errors are field confusion (e.g. returning total funding when asked for maximum award) and hallucination. Maximum award is the hardest field (66.7% accuracy). See the paper for a detailed error analysis.
- Innovate UK: IUK opportunities typically publish short summaries linking to the separate Innovation Funding Service, so their
full_textandsectionsfields contain less detail than other councils.
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